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Deptford's northern section nearest the old docks contains areas of council housing, with some concentrations of people experiencing the forms of deprivation typically associated with the poverty of Inner London. Northern Deptford near the Thames, along with neighbouring New Cross, has been touted as "the new Shoreditch" by some journalists and ...
The ordnance survey map for 1894/5 shows a dockyard branch North to the granary on Greenland Dock, and the 1913 map shows a branch added South running along the centre of Grove Street to the HM Victualling Yard, Deptford opposite Junction Road (which had its own internal tramway), and to the adjacent Foreign Cattle Market (under an act of 1869 ...
The borough covered the same area of the parish of Deptford St Paul, which had been separated from the neighbouring parish of Deptford St Nicholas to its north in 1730. The rateable values of the two parishes had been roughly equal when they were separated, but St Paul contained all the farmland to the south, the majority of which was built on over the next 170 years.
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
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Convoys Wharf as seen from the Thames Path in 2009. Convoys Wharf in Deptford is a former commercial wharf on the River Thames in London, currently awaiting redevelopment.It includes the site of Deptford Dockyard, built in the reign of King Henry VIII as one of the first Royal Dockyards.
Deptford High Street is a street in the Deptford area of the London Borough of Lewisham in south east London. It runs northwards from its southern junction with New Cross Road/Deptford Broadway ( A2 ) for approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to Evelyn Street/Creek Road ( A200 ).
The Deptford area on a map owned in 1623 by John Evelyn, a resident of the area. Evelyn's house, Sayes Court, is at the bottom left. Above it is marked "The K's Ship Yard", the location of the expanding Deptford Dockyard: the "Long Store house" is shown, between the Great Dock and the Treasurer's House, and nearby is "the Storekeepers house and ...