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Deptford Park was originally a market garden belonging to the estate of the Evelyn family. Located near the River Thames , it was renowned for its onions, celery and asparagus. [ 1 ] In 1884, London County Council bought the land for the creation of a public park.
Sayes Court Park in 2008 Sayes Court was a manor house and garden in Deptford , in the London Borough of Lewisham on the Thames Path and in the former parish of St Nicholas . Sayes Court once attracted throngs to visit its celebrated garden [ 1 ] [ 2 ] created by the seventeenth century diarist John Evelyn .
Deptford Park – owned by the Borough since 1897. Folkestone Gardens – 1970s park close to Deptford Park and created from an area of land badly damaged by a V-2 rocket in 1945. Part of the London Cycle Network, and notable for its large pond and children's play area. Forster Memorial Park – east of the A21 road in the Whitefoot and ...
Deptford's economic history has been strongly connected to the Dockyard - when the Dockyard was thriving, so Deptford thrived; with the docks now all closed, Deptford has declined economically. [ 24 ] [ 35 ] However, areas of Deptford are being gradually re-developed and gentrified - and the local council has plans to regenerate the riverside ...
In 1900 the lower tier was reorganised into metropolitan boroughs, two of which were Lewisham (covering the parishes of Lewisham and Lee) and Deptford (covering the parish of Deptford St Paul). [ 2 ] The larger London Borough of Lewisham was created in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963 , as an amalgamation of the former area of the ...
Name Location Type Completed [note 1] Date designated Grid ref. [note 2] Geo-coordinates Entry number [note 3] Image; Boone's Chapel (with Short Abutting Wall to East) : Lee High Road, Lewisham
Folkestone Gardens is a small urban park located in Deptford, south east London. Now part of the London Borough of Lewisham, it was created during the 1970s on an area badly damaged by bombs in World War II. The park was named after a street of railwaymen's houses that once stood on part of the site.
Deptford Township (pronounced DEP-ford [20]) is a township in Gloucester County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 31,977, [10] [11] an increase of 1,416 (+4.6%) from the 2010 census count of 30,561, [21] [22] which in turn reflected an increase of 3,798 (+14.2%) from the 26,763 counted in the 2000 census.