Leaflets & Guides
The Blackheath Society produces a range of leaflets providing local information and guided walks around the area.
Road Rage – Fifty Years of Plans for Motorways Through Blackheath
In the late 1960s there was a plan to build an eight-lane motorway through the centre of Blackheath Village. In what many regard as its finest hour, the Blackheath Society was instrumental in ensuring that this very real plan never came to fruition. The plan was in fact part of a London-wide scheme which would have seen a ring of mostly elevated motorways around the capital. It was also just one of a number of schemes developed for major roads across Blackheath throughout the twentieth century.
Paul Wright, a long-standing member of the Blackheath Society presented an illustrated talk on these spine-shivering plans in October 2019. He has now produced an illustrated booklet based on the talk, which describes in detail the various ways in which planners sought largely to destroy Blackheath Village by driving major roads through it.
The booklet is available to download as a PDF here.
The Society has joined together with four not for profit organisations in the Village to produce this booklet. Here you will discover where to join in with concerts, literary events, walks, talks and educational opportunities.
You can pick up your FREE copy at The Office or at any of the other venues. Or download a copy here.
Local naturalist Joe Beale has written this guide to some of the beautiful wild flowers on the Heath.
It was created in association with The Natural History Museum’s Identification Trainers for the Future programme in June 2017
You can download a copy here to help identify some of the key species.
Seven storyboards depicting the major events and wildlife on Blackheath have been unveiled by the Blackheath Society.
The boards were sponsored by the Boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich, the OnBlackheath festival community fund, local councillors, the Agincourt 600 Fund and the Blackheath Society.
The Storyboards on the Heath, map and information leaflet is available from the Blackheath Society office or you can download a copy here.