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Eltham
Suburb of London; once the site of one of the largest medieval royal palaces--the 15th-cen. Great Hall still stands; William Roper, son-in-law & biographer of Thomas More, lived at the now vanished Well Hall; the hall was owned in the 19th cen. by Hubert Bland, founding member of the Fabian Society; formerly part of the county of Kent.