These stand on the corner of Park Road. Look at the stone high up on the front with the name and date 1867. This was once a longer terrace but a WW2 bomb destroyed those houses nearest the church.

Once a coaching inn where horses could be changed and travellers refresh themselves, it was for many years known as the King’s Head. Parts of the building are reckoned to be 17th-century, making it the oldest building on the High Street. During modernisation two inchthick oaken vats, dating back to times when inns brewed their own ale, were removed.

Formed from an old gravel pit. The gravel gives us the origins of Chislehurst’s name, from Anglo Saxon coesel = stony and hyrst = wood. Look at the island, a recent addition, made with mud dredged from the bottom of the pond.