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Orpington And Bromley District Sunday League
Orpington is a town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is 13.4 miles (21.6 km) south east of Charing Cross. On the south-eastern edge of the Greater London Built-up Area, it is south of St Mary Cray, southwest of Swanley, west of Ramsden, north of Goddington and Green Street Green, and east of Crofton and Broom Hill. Orpington is covered by the London BR postcode area. It is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Stone Age tools have been found in several areas of Orpington, including Goddington Park, Priory Gardens, the Ramsden estate, and Poverest. Early Bronze Age pottery fragments have been found in the Park Avenue area. During the building of Ramsden Boys School in 1956, the remains of an Iron Age farmstead were excavated. The area was occupied in Roman times, as shown by Crofton Roman Villa and the Roman bath-house at Fordcroft. During the Anglo-Saxon period, Fordcroft Anglo-Saxon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orpington (UK Parliament Constituency)
Orpington is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency created in 1945 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 by Gareth Bacon, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative. It is the largest constituency in Greater London by area, covering the east and south of the London Borough of Bromley. History Orpington was created in a major boundary review enacted at the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 general election, which followed an absence of reviews since 1918. The seats of Dartford (UK Parliament constituency), Dartford and Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency), Chislehurst had both seen their electorate grow enormously into newly built houses since the 1918 Representation of the People Act 1918, review and were treated as one and reformed into four seats, creating the additional seats of Bexley (UK Parliament constituency), Bexley and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
