The Downham Estate is a London County Council cottage estate in Downham, south east London. It is mainly in the London Borough of Lewisham and partly in the London Borough of Bromley. The Downham Estate provides an example of the programme of building council housing occurring in Britain between the First and Second World Wars.

The Downham Estate is a London County Council cottage estate in Downham, south east London. It is mainly in the London Borough of Lewisham and partly in the London Borough of Bromley.

The Downham estate, like others built at the time, was developed to help alleviate a severe housing shortage in London, especially in the capital's inner-city districts. This shortage was in evidence before 1914 and was made much worse by the virtual cessation of house-building during the First World War.

The Downham Estate started to be built in the 1920s on farmland on the border of London and Kent. It was built by the London County Council to re-house families from the overpopulated parts of Central London, Bermondsey, Deptford, the Elephant & Castle and the East End, where the living conditions and polluted air exposed them to tuberculosis.

2020年9月8日 · The Downham Estate was built between 1924-38, an extensive LCC estate designed on 'garden city' principles. Named after Lord Downham, Chairman of LCC in 1919-20, the estate had long winding tree-lined roads and incorporated and preserved an existing tract of woodland from Whitefoot Terrace to Bromley Road.

The development of the Downham estate began in March 1924, and was complete by the summer of 1930. The estate covered an area of 522 acres, of which 461 acres were in the metropolitan borough of Lewisham, and 61 acres in the borough of Bromley; and extended from Old Bromley Road and Bromley Hill in the west to the Southern Railway and Baring ...

Downham, Lewisham/Bromley A very large LCC-built estate – initially referred to as a ‘garden city’ – situated midway between Catford and Bromley. Downham is named after William Hayes Fisher, first Baron Downham, chairman of the London County Council until his death in 1920.

Until the 1920s visits to the area on which the estate was constructed, known locally as the 'Seven Fields', often provided a weekend outing for the people of Lewisham.

2014年10月9日 · The Assheton family took ownership of Downham estate in 1558, almost 50 years before the celebrated trial. It’s been in their hands ever since. Currently there are 32 rented homes, a flourishing pub/restaurant called the Assheton Arms and a post office-cum tearoom. Several villagers have expressed an interest in reviving its fortunes should ...

Downham / ˈ d aʊ n ə m / is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England. It is in the Ribble Valley district and at the United Kingdom 2001 census had a population of 156. [1] The 2011 Census includes neighbouring Twiston giving a total for both parishes of 214.