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Cleeve Park Gardens, DA14

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Place Name A misspelling of Cleve. Named after London pewter manufacturer and pamphleteer Bourchier Cleve (1715 – 1760). Sometime around…

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Holt Close, DA14

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Place Name Named after Sir Martin Vesey Holt, a banker and army agent, who lived at the manor house Mount…

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Waring Road, DA14

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Place Name After Samuel James Waring, later Lord Waring (April 19, 1860 – January 9, 1940). Born in Liverpool he…

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Ruxley Close, DA14

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Place Name After Ruxley Farm and the local area. Derived from the Old English words hroces leah meaning a wood where rooks…

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Alexandra Road, DA8

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Place name Queen Alexandra of Denmark (December 1, 1844 – November 20, 1925), was wife of King Edward VII and…

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Vickers Road, DA8

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Place Name After Vickers Works which was based in Crayford. It was set up in 1884 by Hiram Maxim, inventor…

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Wheatley Terrace Road, DA8

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Place Name After the Wheatley family, Lords of the Manor of Erith in the 18th and 19thCenturies. The Wheatleys were a…

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Stuart Mantle Way, DA8

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Place Name Named after Councillor George Stuart Mantle, who served as Mayor of Erith between AD1942 – AD1943. It was…

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Jessett Close, DA8

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Place Name After Frederick Bowreman Jessett, who was appointed Erith’s first Medical Officer of Health in 1870. The street, which…

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Jenningtree Way, DA8

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Place Name Named after Jenningtree Point, a landmark on the banks of the Thames near the end of Crabtree Manor…

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