Shooters Hill, highest point in South London (London)

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Shooters Hill is the highest point in South London (432ft) and a wonderful viewpoint into adjacent counties. Shooter's Hill Road runs from London to Kent, passing over the summit of Shooters Hill along the line of Watling Street.
The name ‘Shooters Hill’ is popularly accepted as a reference to highway robbers and thieves who operated on the hill. It may also be a reference to the archers who practised their shooting here. To protect travellers from “violent practices”, Henry IV ordered the clearing of the woods adjoining the road at Shooters Hill. However, even in 1661 Samuel Pepys reported riding under the “filthy remains” of a man hanging on a gibbet, a grisly public display used as a warning to highway robbers.
Shooters Hill was bypassed by the Rochester Way in the 1930s.