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By this Lease (which appears to have been copied from the lease of 1696), it
appears that the road now called the Blue Anchor Road, from the Turnpike there
(near to which was the house called the Three Horse Shoes, afterwards the Cow
House of Mr. Winter) to the pulley hole at West Lane end, was formerly called the
Sallow alias the Sally Wall. That the lane or way extending from the boundary post
near the Blue Anchor to Cuckhold's point in Rotherhithe, was called the Long Wall,
and that the way leading from the Long Wall to the road near the Green Man on the
Kent Road, was then, as it is at this time, called the Sallow Wall or the Gallow Wall,
and by the said lease, but more particularly by the plan taken in 1696, it appears that
several gates were then at the end of the said walls.
That the part now called Blue Anchor-road, from the Grange-road to the Turnpike
near Millpond Bridge, was made part of the Turnpike Roads, by an Act of Parliament
passed in the seventh year of his present Majesty, for the repair whereof a composition
in lieu of Statute Duty is paid by the Inhabitants to the Trustees of the Roads,
from Dockhead to Deptford.
The description in the above Lease appearing to confirm the plan of 1696, your
committee have caused a fac-simile of that plan to be made. To the better notifying to
the Inhabitants, that the Way, the subject of the late Indictment, is not an ancient
Highway reparable by the Inhabitants, but that the same is now the Freehold of the
devisees in fee, claiming under the will of the said late Reverend Thomas Hambly,
Clerk, and late Lord of the Manor of Bermondsey, and Rector of the Parish Church
thereof.
All which we Report for the consideration of the Inhabitants.
Extract from the Book allied Doomesday Book, English translation.
In Brixton Hundred.
King William (id est William the Conqueror), holds Bermondsey. Earl Harrold
held it (id est King Harrold). But the Norman's would never call him King.
It then defended itself (in other words was taxed) for 13 hides, now for 12 hides.
The Land (id est) the Plough Land is 8 carncates
In demesne there is one carncate and 25 villains and 28 borderers (tenants who
supplied the Lord's board or table) with one carncate.
I here is a new and fair Church, and 20 acres of meadow feeding in the woods for
5 hogs (or pannage) for so many. In Loudon 13 burgesses of 41 pence (or who par
so much rent).