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Erith (/ ˈ ɪər ɪ θ / ⓘ) is an area in south-east London, England, 13.3 miles (21.4 km) east of Charing Cross. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the historical county of Kent .
Erith was a local government district in north west Kent from 1876 to 1965 around the town of Erith. [1] It also included the generally suburban areas of Northumberland Heath , Belvedere , and parts of Barnehurst , Bexleyheath , Crayford and the SE2 London Postal District of Abbey Wood .
The modern borough was created in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, covering the combined area of the former boroughs of Bexley and Erith, the Crayford Urban District and the Sidcup area from the Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District (the Chislehurst area went to the London Borough of Bromley).
Northumberland Heath has a Community Forum (a kind of Parish Council). [4]The Erith Rugby Club is based in Northumberland Heath. [5]The European SF Society (Eurocon) Award-winning webzine, the Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation [6] was founded by former locals of Northumberland Heath, some of whom have established a local SF group.
As an indication of the area's military importance, the first Ordnance Survey map ever drawn was a one-inch map of Kent, published in 1801. [31] Many of the Georgian naval buildings still stand. In the early 19th century, smugglers were very active on the Kent coastline.
John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and the eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. [1] As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities.
Thamesmead (/ ˈ t ɛ m z m iː d /) is an area of south London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley.It is located 11 miles (18 km) east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith.
The DA postcode area, also known as the Dartford postcode area, [2] is a group of eighteen postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns. These cover parts of south-east London and north-west Kent. The main sorting office in Dartford ceased operating in 2012 and became a Delivery Office.