Blanche Downe was the name of a field, first mentioned in 1400.
Court Rolls refer to the flooded footpath to St Giles, Camberwell church "between Myddelfeld & Blaunchysdoune" in 1435.
Blanchedowne adjoined Addingtons Mead, and lay in north Dulwich, not far from where its namesake road is now.
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Blanche Downe was the name of a field, first mentioned in 1400.
