Streatham Hill

A Quick Overview of Streatham Hill

Streatham is a district in south London, England, mostly in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is centred 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Charing Cross.  The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.

• Streatham means "the hamlet on the street".
• The street in question, the London to Brighton Way, was the Roman road from the capital Londinium to the south coast near Portslade, today within Brighton and Hove.
• It is likely that the destination was a Roman port now lost to coastal erosion, which has been tentatively identified with 'Novus Portus' mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia.