Belair, Southwark, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest:  

A late 18th century landscape park, used as a public park since 1947.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Belair is situated in suburban south-east London. Dulwich Park lies about 500 metres to the north-east, Brockwell Park about 1 kilometre to the north-west, and West Dulwich station about 50 metres south of the south-west corner of the site. The 10 hectare park is bounded by Gallery Road to the east, Thurlow Park Road to the south, the railway line to the west, and various private sports grounds to the north. The main lawn slopes gently west of the house towards the lake, with belts of trees along most boundaries.

REFERENCES used by English Heritage:

Garden Life, (8 January 1921), pp 204-205

B Cherry and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 2 South (1983), p 634

Belair, A Short History, (Dulwich Society nd)

Maps

J Rocque, Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark and the country near ten miles around, surveyed 1741-1745, published 1746

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1863-1870

2nd edition surveyed 1894-1896

3rd edition published 1913

1933 edition

Archival items

Photographs, 1930s (Southwark Local Studies Library)

Description written: October 1998

Edited: November 2001