Plaque

2012 Commemorations - Blackheath

Erection date: 2012

Inscription

The 30th Olympiad London 2012
The Blackheath Society 1937 - 2012
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee 1952 - 2012.

{On the outer circumference:}
West Kent Field
Old Donkey Pit
Lincoln Field
Church Field.

The names on the outer circumference sound as though they are areas of Blackheath, but we cannot find any confirmation for this.

2024: We are grateful to John Davis for explaining that "The names given on each quadrant of the circle relate to the field (area of Blackheath) directly adjacent:

West Kent field – named after the West Kent Wanderers, a cricket club formed by the landlord of the Hare & Billet pub in 1859, who used to play on that field.

Lincoln Field named after the Lincoln Regiment which stayed there during WW1.

Church Field – All Saints church is on it.

Old Donkey Pit – long gone, probably filled in during the 19th century – although another text (the London Naturalist) suggests it was after 1943, with debris from WW2.

Most of this information is from: "Walking the Heath – an introduction to its history" Neil Rhind & Roger Marshall, The Blackheath Society 2013 (there are maps in the book with the field names).

And John points out that Google Maps has this feature incorrectly labelled as "Millennium Circle", which is proving difficult to fix. 

Site: 2012 commemorations - Blackheath (1 memorial)

SE3, Blackheath

The memorial is arranged as a compass with an arrow pointing north.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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