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Barnhurst Golf Course

Barnhurst Golf Course. This site was the heart of the old May Place Estate. Opened but didn’t do much for custom at Barnehurst Station. There is public access to the grounds and  panoramic views over Barnehurst. The estate covered a vast area and included the older Crayford Manor House. 15/9/40 Dornier crashed killing three of the crew. Three souvenir hunters killed in an explosion later

Bank of trees At the north-west corner of the course. They were originally part of Manor Way, the old lane from Bexley to Erith.  

Club House building c1960, occupies the site of the mansion of May Place. May Place was originally built c 1480, became a large mansion designed in the Elizabethan style. In the 17th century it belonged to the Draper family and in  1694 was purchased by Admiral Sir Cloudseley Shovel, who died when his ship struck a rock off the Scilly Isles in 1707. In 1745 Miles Barne, a Suffolk based cloth merchant, acquired May Place And  it was let to tenants. In 1903 the golf course was opened and May Place became the clubhouse. In 1938 Crayford UDC bought the golf course. May Place was badly damaged by enemy action during the Second World War and the two upper storeys were destroyed. The remains continued to be used as the clubhouse until a fire it in 1959, after which the present clubhouse was built on the site. There are still old walls from outbuildings, barns etc to the east of the clubhouse

Lime Tree Avenue. Part of an early approach road to May Place linking it with Crayford Manor House.

2 Deneholes.

Braeside Crescent

Collapse of ground at Vickers Playing Field. Filled in. another circular shaft.

20 substantial collapse behind the rear wall

17-18 collapse beneath the boundary fence between the two. Substantial chamber appeared.

Old walls and barns

Holmsdale Grove

A hole opened up between two semi-detached houses in January 1987.  It was about 15ft. deep and was subsequently filled with concrete.

Lime Tree Avenue

Martens Grove

An extensive park, oblong in shape, occupying part of grounds of Martens Grove, a mansion of 1850 which was located in the park near western end of Martens Avenue. It was demolished in 1932, and the Martens Estate was then built on the grounds to the south, forming a close backcloth to park. The park embodies a variety of landscapes. Entering from the west at Spring Vale there is a long ravine with steep and densely wooded sides; it then widens out in flat grassed area, until 1989 the site of an open air swimming-pool with special paddling pool and Ozone plant. Beyond woodland on a steep slope continues to the east, eventually becoming a short leading out to Old Road near the junction with London Road. 

May Place Estate

Clubhouse on site of May Place home of Cloudesley  Shovel.

Manor House,

Old walls and barns,

Lime Tree Avenue,

Oakwood Drive

Oakwood Drive. The avenue of trees along this road used to lead to Oakwood mansion of 1849, demolished 1945. Mayplace School is now on the site. At the of the road is an entrance to Martens Grove

Old Manor Way

A short cut which passes under the railway bridge which is  still largely the original brick bridge of 1837.

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