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Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham.
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.
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.
St Paul's, Deptford, is one of London's finest Baroque parish churches, cited as "one of the most moving C18 churches in London" in the Buildings of England series. [1] It was designed by gentleman architect Thomas Archer and built between 1712 and 1730 in Deptford , which was then a settlement in Kent but is now part of South East London .
Deptford is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. The ward was originally created in 1965 and abolished in 1978. It was created again in 2022.
The Deptford culture (800 BCE—700 CE) was an archaeological culture in southeastern North America characterized by the appearance of elaborate ceremonial complexes, increasing social and political complexity, mound burial, permanent settlements, population growth, and an increasing reliance on cultigens.
HM Victualling Yard, Deptford was a Royal Navy Victualling Yard established alongside Deptford Royal Dockyard on the River Thames. There was victualling activity on the site for the best part of 300 years from the mid-17th century through to the early 1960s.
Deptford Town Hall is a municipal building in New Cross Road, Deptford, London. It is a Grade II* listed building and is currently owned and operated by Goldsmiths College . [ 1 ] In 1966 the architectural critic Ian Nairn described it as 'The jolliest public building in London'.