an L of a lot more

London has an L of a lot more unsung suburbs starting with L. L is for Leaves Green We're in Bromley, just north of Biggin Hill and rather closer to the airport runway. A few big houses back onto a long village green bookended by two pubs, only one of which serves Turkish humus kavurma. They like their coal tax post so much they put it on their village sign. I've written about Leaves Green before, obviously. L is for Lessness Heath We're in Bexley in an area better known as Upper Belvedere, but not much better known otherwise you'd now know where it is. Roughly halfway between Abbey Wood and Erith but up a bit if that helps. Most local businesses actually plump for the Belvedere name, also the local library and parish church, while The Fox pub instead claims to be part of Nuxley Village. But there is a Lessness Heath Primary School and also a long back history, indeed the Hundred of Little and Lesnes was the name of the northernmost part of Kent as far back as the Domesday Book, the…