Blackheath (London)

Blackheath is a district of London, which is mostly in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after the central grassland that forms the boundary between Lewisham and Greenwich.

History

Origin of the Name

The name of Blackheath was first mentioned in 1166 as Blachehedfeld, which translates as " dark-colored heathland " means. It was blæc from the Old English words and hǣth formed. In 1226 it was written as Blakehetfeld 1275 as Blakeheth.

Local rumor has it that the name of the mid-14th century goes to the Great Plague of London in the years 1665 and 1666 or the Black Death (English Black Death ) back. The historical basis of the rumor that the heathland of Blackheath was then used as a kind of mass grave for victims of the plague epidemic of 1347-1353.

Middle Ages

The Roman road, which later became known as Watling Street, crosses the northern border of Blackheath in the direction of Deptford Creek.

Blackheath was the rendezvous of 1381 led by Wat Tyler Peasants ' Revolt in 1450 and Jack Cade's rebellion led to the goal, Henry VI. to overthrow. He is named after the Wat Tyler Road in the west of Blackheath. On June 17, 1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge, which is also known as the Battle of Blackheath took place at Deptford Creek. So describes the British author Edward Walford Blackheath with the words: "In past times it what planted with gibbets, on Which the bleaching bones of men who had dared to ask for some extension of liberty, or who doubted the infallibility of kings, were left. year after year to dangle in the wind " ( Edward Walford: Old and New London).

19th and 20th centuries

In 1909 there were in Blackheath, a local branch of the London Society for Women's Suffrage.

Personalities

  • John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), architect and dramatist
  • Augusta of Hanover (1737-1813), Princess Royal, Duchess and Princess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel
  • Caroline of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821), Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1937), physician
  • Aston Webb (1849-1930), architect
  • Francis Alphonsus Bourne (1861-1935), Archbishop of Westminster
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