The name Parsonage Manorway falls into a local tradition without being part of the tradition.
Parsonage Manorway seems to have got its name comparatively recently and does not follow the local naming explanation for roads called ’Manor way’.
There are several ’Manor way’ roads in the district, all apart from Parsonage Manorway on marshes. The Manor ways on the marshes were access roads to fields held in different estates or ’manors’. Many of the local big estates - Danson, Hall Place, Lamorbey, May Place, Mount Mascal and the Manor of Erith itself, had plots of land in the marshes, and needed roads by which to reach them.
An example of the construction dates from 1622 in an agreement between several landowners and an engineer by which the engineer undertook to recover 580 acres of flooded marshland in
Erith and to construct "ways and passages for those who shall be
owners or occupiers of the said inned lands".
These access roads were sometimes called ’Manor ways’. There is no known explanation of the term.
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The name Parsonage Manorway falls into a local tradition without being part of the tradition.
