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Eltham.—Fairly pretty country and healthy, but being much built over; lies south-east. Rents about average. From Charing cross (37 min.), Cannon-street (27 min.), 1st, 1/10, 2/9; 2nd, 1/4, 2/3; 3rd, -/10, 1/6.
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879