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Blackfen Road
Chapel House. Erected to Danson Park, roughcast cottage turret and spire 1760. Sham
chapel Eye catcher on the roundabout. Mock tomb covers a well head. Built as an
eye-catcher across the park. Lead spire at its end, and a low flattened turret
towards the road. The traceried windows look like a c 19 remodelling, but an c
18 drawing suggests that they are original
New Ideal Homesteads all
round the area. Shopping parades built between the wars.
64-68 Jolly
Fenman. Pub and micro
brewery
273 Woodman pub.1930s pub
Blendon
Marked as ‘Blenden’ on Bowen's map
c.1762 and on the Ordnance Survey map of 1805, earlier ‘Bladidun’, ‘Bladindon’
1240, ‘Bladindoune’ 1327, ‘Bladyngdone’ 1332, probably -hill associated with a
man called ‘Bloda', from an Old English personal name with Old English medial
connective ‘-ing-‘ and ‘dun’. ‘Blenden
Hal;’ is marked on Bowen's map c.1762,
‘Blendon Hall’ on the 1876 Ordnance Survey map. First known resident was Joseph de Bladindon 14th
house. He had a house which was bought in the Restoration by Jacob Sawbridge,
of the South Sea Compaby
Blendon
Road
Blendon Hall built 1763. the home
of Charles Delamotte, one of those who accompanied Wesley to Georgia. His
father was a sugar merchant. On his return home, Wesley called on the family on his
way from Dover to London and was warmly received, despite the fact that he had
left Delamotte in America. The Hall was demolished in 1934, but its gatehouse
survives at the junction of The Drive. The hall was
rebuilt after 1763. This was a 17th
century house was demolished in the 1930s and the estate was used for building
suburban housing after attempts to turn it into a school. Over the years there
has been a long running series of excavations to discover the exact location of
the building and to see if the cellars and vaults still existed. There is a
passage alongside the cellars.
44
Blendon Road. brick building
with odd bellcote was formerly Bridgen National School, 1860.
119/123 Jays Cottages group
of three houses was originally a pair of cottages built c1700. extensions to the east and the
rear are c1939.
Three Blackbirds. An attractive mid 18th century pub with a fine roof.
167 West Lodge stone
building c1860, . One of two lodges for Blendon Hall. The estate of Blendon,
originally called Bladigdone, goes back at least to the 13th
century. Early tenants included John and Maud de Bladigdone, The last mansion
on the estate was Blendon Hall, built for Lady Mary Scott in 1763; Humphrey
Repton later landscaped the grounds. Demolished in 1934, and the grounds have
been developed for housing; a lodge, the bailiffs house, and many trees have
survived.
Greensill lamp manufacturer
Blendon Methodist Church. Alongside the red brick church of 1972 is the
old white concrete church of 1935, a long low-lying building in art deco style,
now in use as
the hall. It was an avant-garde building for its time,
St.James the Great, low-lying
red brick church 1937, parish church Note the open bell turret. Note on the right-hand wall a small stone V
moulding which is actually Norman from Rochester Cathedral
East Lodge
Oak House, Bartlett
Blendon Drive
Rochester Way
The catalyst for
suburbanisation.
Westwood Lane
Westwood Estate by
C.R.Leech
Plaza Cinema.
Architect Robert Cromie. Opened
1937. Renamed Odeon in 1946 and closed
1956. On site of Somerfield’s car park.
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