L is also for

For my A-Z safari of unsung suburbs I chose Lamorbey near Sidcup. But I also road-tested a couple of other Ls in case they were better, which they weren't but let me tell you about them anyway. L is for Lower Morden Before we go lower, best start with Morden itself. Everyone knows it as the southern terminus of the Northern line but the original village of Morden was a kilometre to the southwest around St Lawrence's Church. Lower Morden was another kilometre further on, hence even further off-radar, with a couple of farms, a scattering of cottages and a duckpond on a long village green. Only in the 1930s did the Mock Tudor invasion advance and hey presto, everything rural was wiped from the map. At the village centre today is the weirdly-named Hatfeild Primary School, not a spelling error but a nod to Gilliat Hatfeild the last Lord of the Manor of Morden. The school was built on the site of Lower Morden Farm whereas Peacock Farm has been replaced by the large but intimate Lower Morden…