London’s Alleys: Church Path, SW14

This is the remains of a once much longer path that later lost its southern half and would once have linked two main roads running through Mortlake in south London
The outline of the path dates to at least the 1740s, as it shows up as a path through fields in John Rocque’s map of wider London from 1746.
John Rocque’s 10 miles around London 1746
However, by the 19th century, as London expanded and fields turned into houses, the path became more clearly defined and straightened from it