Stone shield from Chislehurst Water Tower
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Stone shield from Chislehurst Water Tower
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 17 May 2012
Prior to 1860, the route from Bromley to Chislehurst was along Old Hill. In 1860, George Wythes built a new route as a private route into his Bickley Park Estate and gave it a grand entrance in the form of an archway incorporating a water tower. Four years later the route became a public highway and in due course it usurped Old Hill as the main road from Bromley to Chislehurst, not least for the reason that Chislehurst Station stood along side it lower down the hill. Inevitably as traffic levels increased over time it proved to be a bottleneck, and eventually in 1963 it was demolished (even though space was available for it to be bypassed). The only remains is this stone shield, situated alongside Summer Hill at the site of the Water Tower (see Image).
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Image Location
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51.407702
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0.062144