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Blackheath

British

/ ˈblækhiːθ /

noun

a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen

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Chiddingfold U10s were playing Blackheath U10s at Lurgashall, in Chichester, when the interruption occurred.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

Barbara Mary Quant was born in London on Feb. 11, 1930, and grew up in the city’s Blackheath area.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Geoff Fenn is steward at the Blackheath allotments on the other side of Colchester.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2021

I am informed that Mick McCarthy is a frequent visitor to the Cote Brasserie in Blackheath.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2019

The Blackheath visitors were very kind to me, and used to take me into their games.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.

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