Eltham

Eltham is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is located 8.7mi east-southeast of Charing Cross, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Eltham also lies within the historic county of Kent. The three wards of Eltham North, South and West have a total population of 35,459.HistoryOriginsEltham developed along part of the road from London to Maidstone and lies 3mi almost due south of Woolwich. Mottingham, to the south, became part of the parish on the abolition of all extra-parochial areas, which were rare anomalies in the parish system. Eltham College and other parts of Mottingham were even before the 1860s therefore not considered within Eltham's boundaries.From the 6th century Eltham was in the ancient Lathe of Sutton at Hone. In the 1086 Domesday Book its hundred was named Greniz (Greenwich), which by the 1166 was renamed Blachehedfeld (Blackheath) because it had become the location of the annual or more frequent hundred gathering.