Orpington 1868

Detailed map of Orpington; Kent sheet 16.07. Introduction by Pamela Taylor. It was only in the 1920s that Orpington was transformed from a quiet Kentish village into a London suburb, says author Pamela Taylor, and this map captures it in its early rural existence. The southern part of the map has the village centre, with All Saints church, the British School, White Hart inn, remains of an old priory, Broomhill Common, and a few good sized houses near the crossroads. The main (unnamed) road runs in a NE direction across the map to New Town, near Northfield, where we find three planned streets. Nearby is the Corn Mill. Eastward the map extends down country lanes to houses called Ramsden and Petting Grove. On the reverse are directories for Orpington in 1869 and 1875.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). This edition published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett