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Spur Road, ORPINGTON, BR6 0QR

Spur Road was built in the 1920s to link the new Orpington Bypass with the southern end of High Street, by what is now the War Memorial roundabout. At the western end the housing is away from the main road in a separate service road, as here.

Built in the 1920s to link the new Orpington Bypass with the southern end of High Street, by what is now the War Memorial roundabout. Originally unnumbered, it now forms part of the A232 which runs across the outer suburbs of south London from here through Croydon and Sutton to Ewell.

One of the "public schools" roads in this part of Orpington. Note the standard prewar design of housing.

One of the number of roads in this part of Orpington named after public schools.

What would seem to be a boundary stone, situated on Spur Road (see Image for wider view). I have not been able to identify what it signifies. "KCC" is almost certainly "Kent County Council" (in which county this area was situated until included in the London Borough of Bromley in 1965). But the meaning of "B" and "C" is a mystery. From old maps there has never been a boundary here, and in the 1920s this would have all been part of the Bromley Rural District, before becoming Orpington Urban District in 1934. The village of Chelsfield lies to the southeast of here, but I can find no evidence of it having reached this far, and even if it did, that would leave the "B" totally unexplained - at this level west of here would unquestionably have been Orpington.

Spur Road was built in the 1920s to link the new Orpington Bypass with the southern end of High Street, by what is now the War Memorial roundabout. At the western end the housing is away from the main road in a separate service road, seen on the left here. In the foreground is the boundary stone in Image

Interwar semis built on a service road at the western end of Spur Road. In the background is the Tescos building opened in May 2009.

Mortimer Road was built in the 1970s or so to connect Lancing Road and Homefield Rise, replacing a house at this point in Lancing Road. At some point later it was blocked off (see Image), presumably because it was being used as a rat run to bypass the High Street. In 2010, it turned full circle, with a house built on the site (seen on the left of this photo). Despite its status at the Lancing Road end only as a footpath, it still retains its street sign, as seen here.

Mortimer Road was built in the 1970s or so to connect Lancing Road and Homefield Rise, replacing a house at this point in Lancing Road. At some point later it was blocked off (see Image), presumably because it was being used as a rat run to bypass the High Street. In 2010, it turned full circle, with a house built on the site. Here is the start of building (see also Image, Image and Image).