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Info	Canonbie Road	Devonshire Road	Honor Oak Road

Forest Hill heights is the area between Stanstead Road and Wood ale i.e. the border with East Dulwich. It has unsurpassed views of central London and Kent.It was mostly green fields apart from some Victoria houses including Tewkesbury Lodge (1855-1930). 1862 map Borders: Wood Vale and Stanstead Road. Park: Horniman Gardens Buses: 176, 185, 197, P4 Rail: Forest Hill (London Overground) Residents Association: Tewkesbury Lodge	map Very steep road offering fine views of Kent. Thirties houses,	map It runs by the railway and in-between is the Devonshire Road nature reserve. Mostly Victorian architecture. Desmond Dekker in Devonshire Road in the C20.	map Honor Oak Road runs between London Road and Honor Oak Park with a mix of period house. Fine view of Kent and the City. Developed from the 18th Century. Hill House (1790s) and Ahberry Cottage (c.1809) are early examples.

Horniman Drive	Liphook Crescent	London Road	Manor Mount

map Horniman Drive has exceptionally views of both London and Kent. Mostly Thirties development with several good examples of Modernist/Deco styling. Key property: No 30 Welcome Aboard (1932) by Robert Atkinson and Partners designers of the Daily Express foyer in Fleet Street).	map A 1880 folly tower from Tewkesbury Lodge remains in the garden of No 23.	map London Road is part of the South Circular Road with attendant heavy traffic. Previously known as Forest Hill Road. Despite that it has a fine range of period housing with South side - mid C19 classical terraces on the South side leading up to the well-loved Horniman Museum and Gardens	map Victorian houses with good views. Peter Perrett of the Only Ones infamously lived here.

Ringmore Rise	Taymount Rise	Tewkesbury Avenue	Westwood Park

Map Built in the 1930s on the site of Tewkesbury Lodge.	Map Taymount Rise was called Queens Road until the late 1930s when the name was changed to avoid confusion with the many other Queens Roads in London. Taymount, after which the road was named, was a large Victorian house on the site of Taymount Grange. It was demolished in the early 1930s. Key properties:Taymount Grange (1935) by George Bertram Carter. Many of the flats had a small apartment one for a servant. There was also a restaurant, lounge and "guest rooms". Outside there were seven tennis courts, a swimming pool and a putting green. Forest Croft (1936) by Arnold Andre Higuer, on a site previously occupied by The Mount.	Map Built in the 1930s on the site of Tewkesbury Lodge.	Map Westwood Park runs down Forest Hill to the Dulwich border with fine views of London.Mostly 1930s semi-detached houses.

Best Forest Hill roads
Honor Oak Park
Honor Oak Road
Horniman Drive
London Road
Perry Vale
Stanstead Road
Sunderland Road
Taymount Rise
Westbourne Drive
Werstwood Park