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completed, and the long pending negotiations for tho other
satisfactorily concluded.
The Forest Hill Improvement consists in forming a new
road in a direct line from the carriage bridge, under the
London and Brighton Railway, a little north of the station,
to Park Road, Dartmouth Park, across a piece of land purchased
by the Board for the purpose.
The purchase money for the land was £2000 , it comprised
little more than an acre of ground, of which about
1136 square yards is appropriated to the formation of the
road, and about 1303 square yards have been retained by the
Board as a stone yard, or for other public purposes; ot the
remainder, about 2155 square yards were resold by auction
for £1470, and about 347 square yards arc proposed to be
sold to the Lewisham Union Board of Guardians for £250,
as a Poor Law Relief Station.
The land sold, or under contract for sale, will thus
realize £1720, leaving only £280 (exclusively of attendant
expenses) as the cost to the Board of the land retained as a
stoneyard, or for other public purposes ; this sum is so far
below the value of the land that the new road may be considered
as having been formed free of cost to the Parish.
The Sydenham Green Improvement.—The right of Mr.
E. Howard, as the owner of the Estate on the northern side
of the road from the Sydenham Railway Station towards
Lower Sydenham, to the open Green in front of and adJoining
the Sme having been established to the satisfaction
of the Board- the existence of a public Footpath over the
Green, but separating it from the Estate, was made the
groundsdworks for an arrangement between the Board, Mr.
Howerd, and the London and Brighton Railway Company,
The negociations, extending over a period of four years,
resulted in an agreement executed between the parties on
the 14th December, 1874, of which the following are the
leading features
1. Mr. Howerd giving up a width of about 10 feet
along the whole lenght of the Green belonging to him