Lewisham Park in St Albans – Named after the London Borough of Lewisham in south east London. The developer wanted names reflecting an English country estate. First appears in street directories in 1996. [Lewisham Park is the name given to both the subdivision, and the largest street in the subdivision. Lewisham Place was originally proposed, but it was felt that was too similar to Louisson Place.] Information supplied in 2009 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
A small amount of information from the library website and personally my feeling is that if you want a name to reflect an English country estate you wouldn’t use Lewisham as a name. Note I do have ancestors from the Lewisham area and it was in Kent those days rather than greater London.
Nothing on Papers Past and when googling it is only real estate ads. I can’t afford the houses here and they are large houses on big sections. The houses and street was actually quite nice. I walked this street very early this morning and it was cold and frosty. There is a reserve which possibly leads to Rutland Reserve but I didn’t walk it today.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 