Find your street, click on the link and find out how the street got its name. Bexley’s street name origins revealed. A gazetteer or dictionary of street names in the DA post code area with many more to follow. To use scroll through the index to find a place name you are interested in and click on the link to find a brief history of its origin, how the road, street, path or avenue got his name and what it means. From the strange to the mundane, the obvious to the sublime, the weird and wonderful from ancient by-ways to modern estates, revealing short histories of the area, its people and their connection (if there is one) with the local district. And if you have any information of a missing street or even of one already featured please let us know so that we can update the website. Covering Bexley, Bexley Village, Blendon, Albany Park, Joyden’s Wood, Bexleyheath, Upton, Barnehurst, Sidcup, Foots Cray, North Cray, Longlands, Ruxley, Blackfen, Lamorbey, Longlands, Avery Hill, Welling, Falconwood, East Wickham, Belvedere, Lessness Heath, and Thamesmead. More than 150 street name histories revealed.
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