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Lewisham is an front yard inside a London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. These are the major transfer hub, mendacious on the A20 road towards Dover and at the start of A21 to Hastings, with its have bus depot, mainline railway station and the southern terminus of the Docklands Light Railway. These are virtually all in all probability to own been founded by the heathenish Jute, Leof, who settled (by burning his boat) nigh St Mary's Church (Ladywell) where a ground was drier, in the 6th Century. 'Leofshema' was an crucial personal injury settlement at a confluence of the streams, lakes, and wells throughout Quaggy (from Farnborough) & Ravensbourne (Caesar's Well, Keston), then a village expanded northerly into a wetter region when drain techniques improved. In the mid-fifteenth century the then vicar of Lewisham, Abraham Colfe, built the grammar school, primary school and six almshouses for the inhabitants. A village of Lewisham was originally centralized farther south in a area of a parish church of St Mary, towards the present places of University Hospital Lewisham. A centre migrated to a N by using the coming of the North Kent railway line to Dartford in 1849, encouraging commuter housing. Lewisham's High Street is particularly long & wide for the London suburbia. A town centre was bombed within 1944, commemorated by a plaque outside a Lewisham Shopping Centre (opened in 1977). This locality at a in the north prevent of the High Street was pedestrianised in 1994. These are house to a day-to-day street market & the local landmark, the Clock Tower, completed in 1900 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. A police station, which was opened in 2004 to replace a station around Ladywell, is reputedly one of a largest within Europe. A A20 roundabout (installed inside serious faith around 1999) is to be flushed & the fresh itinerant models put in situ when section of 'Urban Renaissance Lewisham' which may look at a greater appreciation of the streams, lakes, and wells throughout upon which the village was founded ([http://qwag.org.uk]).
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