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Just to add, along Sandford Road the river is a fantastic wildlife corridor because of course it preserves the trees and wayside. We get all sorts of birds and mammals, including (rarely) muntjac deer as well as owls, jays, pheasants and other wildlife not generally associated with being a 5 minute walk from a busy town centre. It helps that Sandford Road is essentially a cul-de-sac.
As a Bromley person, always love to see a post on something like this.
Intrigued by the fact for many years that in south London there are two Fortified Enclosures (once called Hill Forts) where our ancient Brythonic ancestors lived bearing the same name: Caesars Camp. There is one in Bromley and one in Wimbledon. Both are fed by natural springs - and ideal place for a settlement in pre-Roman times. Both would have had their own Bythonic names long before the Romans turned up, and presumably evicted them and converted them into "camps" for soldiers named after Caesar.
In Bromley there is another site of interest which also has a spring and could in older times been a Fortified Enclosure - what much later became Bromley Palace, the seat of the Bishops of Rochester. This had a moat around it, which I suspect was much older and a natural spring called St. Blaises Well which has unique chalybeate water. This spring feeds the moat and the stream called the Blackbrook - which joins the "Ravens River" at Bromley South.
(there was another chalybeate well found on Masons Hill by the Tigers Head pub in the 1970s, which may had some significance as well).
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