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Blackheath is a place of strategic importance due to being an area of open, high ground just outside ...
Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham. [3] Historically within the county of Kent, it is located 1-mile (1.6 km) northeast of Lewisham, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Greenwich and 6.4 miles (10.3 km) southeast of Charing Cross, the traditional centre ...
Jan 5, 2003 · In his new book, The Heath, revised last year, he points out the name Blackheath is, quite simply, derived from two English words: black because of the colour of the soil (not the...
Jan 11, 2022 · Did Blackheath get its name because of the Black Death plague victims lurking beneath? Do Greenwich and Blackheath harbour secret plague pits? This blog aims to find out.
Rumour has it that Blackheath is called so because of all the dead bodies lying beneath it from the Black Death. Although the heath may be a mass burial ground for both the Black Death and the Great Plague victims (we're going to explore this in a blog so bear with us), the name existed long before these contagions swept across London (and the ...
Blackheath, open common and residential area mainly in the Greater London boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich. It lies about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the City of London. The site of both Roman and Saxon remains, the heath was crossed by the Roman Watling Street (now partly traced by Shooter’s
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Blackheath was so called because it appeared a darker colour than the green fields beside the Thames which it overlooked - the soil was dark and so were the plants which grew there. The name has nothing to do with the plague or Black Death.
