( No Names ) Club ( Kilburn ), the original Crystal Palace, Blackheath, Kensington School, Perceval House ( Blackheath ), Surbiton and Blackheath Proprietary School ; Charterhouse sent their captain, B. F. Hartshorne, but declined the offer to join.

In 1608, according to tradition, Blackheath was the place where golf was introduced to England – the Royal Blackheath Golf Club ( based in nearby Eltham since 1923 ) was one of the first golf associations established ( 1766 ) outside Scotland.

However, Blackheath is perhaps most famous for founding the Blackheath Rugby Club in 1858, which is the oldest documented rugby club in England and located on Charlton Road.

The Marathon runs past the entrance to Blackheath High School for Girls, home of Blackheath Fencing Club.

* Blackheath Rugby Club

* Blackheath Rugby Club founded.

* 21 clubs are represented at the meeting: Blackheath, Richmond, Ravenscourt Park, West Kent, Marlborough Nomads, Wimbledon Hornets, Gipsies, Civil Service, Law Club, Wellington College, Guy ’ s Hospital, Flamingoes, Clapham Rovers, Harlequins, King ’ s College, St Paul ’ s School, Queen ’ s House, Lausanne, Addison, Mohicans, Belsize Park.

* 1766-The Blackheath Club in London becomes the first golf club formed outside of Scotland.

* The Rectory Field, home of Blackheath Rugby Club, is on the border of Blackheath and Charlton.

It is also home, since 1927, of the world famous Blackheath Harriers Athletics Club ( now Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC ).

However, Headingley bounced back and found fixtures outside Yorkshire, in 1901 their fixture list including a game against the famous Blackheath Rugby Club.

The 21 clubs present at the meeting were: Blackheath ( represented by Burns and Frederick Stokes, the latter becoming the first captain of England ), Richmond, Ravenscourt Park, West Kent, Marlborough Nomads, Wimbledon Hornets, Gipsies, Civil Service, The Law Club, Wellington College, Guy ’ s Hospital, Flamingoes, Clapham Rovers, Harlequin F. C., King's College Hospital, St Paul's, Queen ’ s House, Lausanne, Addison, Mohicans, and Belsize Park.

The Blackheath Rugby Club, in London, founded in 1858 is the oldest surviving non-university / school rugby club.

Blackheath Football Club ( The Club ) is a rugby football club based in Blackheath in south-east London, now playing at the Rectory Field ( known as ' The Rec ' or ' The Parsonage ').

When the Kentish rebels arrived at Blackheath on 12 June, the renegade Lollard priest, John Ball, preached a sermon including the famous question that has echoed down the centuries: " When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

Musician Jools Holland visited whilst filming for TV music show The Tube, and was so impressed that he has had his studio and other buildings at his home in Blackheath built to a design heavily inspired by Portmeirion.

Blackheath has a village like feel.

At the top of Westcombe Hill, the ' Blackheath Standard ' area has numerous shops including a Marks & Spencer's Simply Food outlet, a fish and chip shop, estate agents, a cake shop, cafes, a Chinese restaurant and take-away, newsagents, a greengrocer and two DIY shops.

Blackheath also has a notable number of ' alternative ' health practitioners, e. g.: acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis, chiropracty and crystal healing.

Blackheath has always been a predominantly working class area dominated by modest housing.

Blackheath has many transport links with buses travelling throughout the borough and Rowley Regis railway station is nearby.

Blackheath has some of the strongest public transport links in the Black Country.

Blackheath has many cafes and restaurants, a large antique centre and other shops of interest to tourists.

The area has a similar climate to Blackheath, New South Wales in the Blue Mountains, with mild to warm summers and with cold and windy winters with regular frosts and occasional snowfalls, though many snowfalls do not settle.

His Gothic church at of St Michael at Blackheath Park ( 1828-9 ) was built in white brick with stone facings, and has what the Buildings of England guide calls " a fanciful thin east spire ", sometimes descrcribed as " the Needle of Kent ".

Nursing courses are taught just around the corner from Beaconside on Blackheath Lane following the integration into the university in 1995 of the Shropshire and Staffordshire College of Nursing and Midwifery, which also has bases in Shrewsbury, Telford and Oswestry.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by " the unhappy John Hector McFarlane ", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre.

Morden College is a long-standing charity which has been providing residential care in Blackheath, south-east London, England for over 300 years.

The Grand Canyon, near Blackheath, has a tourist track along its rim, but requires abseiling ( rappelling ) or swimming to visit fully.

This has resulted in a notable ridge formed of Palaeocene deposits ( the Lambeth Group ), which includes Shooter's Hill, Greenwich Park and Blackheath.

The relatively leafy former village of Blackheath is in the North-East of the borough, and has much more in common with Greenwich than the remainder of Lewisham-indeed some of the area considered to be Blackheath is in Greenwich borough.

He has two sons, Laurence and Alexander with Sandra Phylis Conolly and lives in Blackheath, London.

It has contested elections in Blackheath, Chatham, Lancaster, Leigh, Paddington, Peterborough, West Greenwich and Kidbrooke with Hornfair.

The site of old gravel workings, Vanbrugh Pits have long been reclaimed by nature and form one of the more attractive parts of the generally rather flat Blackheath.

Russell contended that Blackheath Barrow was primarily a religious site, specifically intended for the " performance of funeral rites ", as there was no evidence that it had been settled for domestic use.

He pointed out that the pistol produced might not have been the pistol used at Banner Cross ; at the same time the bullet fired in November 1876, bore marks such as would have been produced had it been fired from the pistol taken from Peace at Blackheath in October 1878.

In Deptford the Fowler's Troop and Blackheath Morris have been parading the tallest and heaviest modern Jack for many decades, either in Greenwich, Bermondsey and the Borough or at Deptford itself, and at the end of May a Jack is an essential part of the Pagan Pride parade in Holborn.

Blackheath was part of the borough of Rowley Regis until 1966, when it became part of the county borough of Warley.

Places in it included Lewisham, Blackheath, Lee, Hither Green, Catford, Brockley, Forest Hill and part of Sydenham.

Shooter's Hill Road stretches eastwards from the heath at Blackheath up and over the hill, initially as part of the A2 road and then the A207.

( The surrounding land later formed part of the Blackheath Park housing estate created by John Cator, after he purchased Wricklemarsh in 1783 ).

At the main site in Blackheath a Christian K-12 school, Mountains Christian Academy was established-most of the movement's churches had these as part of their ministry in educating their children.

Blackheath Common is also part of this area.