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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ).
Albury Street is a road in Deptford in the London Borough of Lewisham, England.It runs east to west between the A2209 Road and Deptford High Street. The road was laid out in the very early 18th century, when Deptford was a village to the south of the capital.
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 ...
English: Map information: Title: "A plan of His Majesty's dock-yard at Deptford, 1774." British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.18.17.10. Place of publication: [London] Publisher: [producer not identified] Date of publication: 1774. Item type: 1 map on 2 sheets Medium: pen and ink drawing Dimensions: 74 x 153 cm, sheets differ in size
Text: Deptford, a large old town on the south bank of the Thames, in the county of Kent, about 3 miles from London Bridge, has two parishes and an ancient dockyard, used as a Royal dockyard, established by Henry VIII, who also first erected here a storehouse.