This map shows the dramatic growth of Welling in the inter-war period.

Between 1920 and 1926 Bexley Urban District Council built 426 houses on land north of the railway line as part of the Welling Council Housing Scheme.

South of Watling Street the sale of the Danson Estate opened up land for development by private builders.

1:2500 OS map, published by the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1933.

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