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Halstead

 

TQ 48 62 An area of scattered housing, leading to the centre of the village of Halstead

 

Boundary London/Kent/Bromley

The boundary runs south east from Birthday Wood until it reaches a path which goes from Church Road.the boundary then turns sharp to the west

 

Church Road

St.Margaret's church. Rebuilt Teulon 1881. It was built in what was the old cemetery and the Chancel is the old buriel chapel. Monuments, brasses in the Early English style and has a bell gable with a bell dated 1612 which come from the older church which was demolished in 1880.  Millennium mosaic shows the village and its activities.

Rectory

Halstead Place.  In 1927 became a school and was later used by the Home Office and then as a Prisoner of War Camp.  It was demolished in 1952.

Halstead Place School  - since redeveloped for housing

School on the site of Halstead Place, Hexagonal building for donkey wheel. Demolished.

Remains of St.Margaret’s Church. Demolished 1880.  It was in the grounds of the manor house but a glass window by Casolini was put in the new church.

Halstead Manor – demolished – remains include the gate house, a flint coach house, and a stable block.

 

Clark’s Lane

Yew Tree Cottages

 

Halstead

The  name means ‘safe place or ‘refuge’

The Hall, Edith Nesbitt lived there

 

Otford Lane

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Shoreham Lane

The Cock. The original Cock Inn was Tudor and was first of all a farm building.  It became a registered ale house in 1702 and has seen many excitements and so on.

 

Station Road

Widmore Farm

 

Stonehouse Lane


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