Hilly Fields, Lewisham

The philanthropist Octavia Hill was active in Deptford, and learnt of building proposals in the Hilly Fields area.

[11] The summit of the park is 175 feet above sea level, from where views of central London can be obtained.

[1] The school is listed (under its former name of Hillyfields Sixth Form Centre) Grade II* but only for the ‘exceptional’ mural paintings, executed between 1933 and 1936, in the school hall, by four painters connected with the Royal College of Art: Charles Mahoney, Evelyn Dunbar, Mildred Eldridge and Violet Martin.

[13] Edith Nesbit referred to Hilly Fields in her 1913 non-fiction work The Wings and the Child.

[2] The Brockley-born novelist Henry Williamson referred to the campaign to save Hilly Fields in his 1952 novel Donkey Boy.

[14] In 1982, musician Nick Nicely, who lived in Brockley at the time, released the single "Hilly Fields (1892)" inspired by the park.