• Orpington; as an urban parish it had no parish council, with Orpington Urban District Council being the lowest level representative body. The urban district...
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    Orpington is a town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is 13.4 miles (21.6 km) south east of Charing Cross. On the south-eastern...
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    Borough of Beckenham, Orpington Urban District, Penge Urban District and the Chislehurst area from the Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District (the Sidcup area...
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    Downe (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    down, hence the South and North Downs. In April 1965, much of Orpington Urban District, including Downe, was transferred from the historic county of Kent...
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    was split between the Municipal Borough of Bromley (3 acres) and Orpington Urban District (1,426 acres). The entire area has formed part of the London Borough...
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  • Orpington's 1962 municipal elections were held on 10 May 1962. One third of the council was up for election. The elections took place just under two months...
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    St Mary Cray (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    of the Bromley Rural District from 1894 and was absorbed by the Orpington Urban District in 1934. The Orpington Urban District was abolished in 1965...
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    1945–1950: The urban district of Orpington, and part of the municipal boroughs of Beckenham and Bromley. 1950–1955: The urban district of Orpington, and the rural...
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    Ewell, the urban districts of Banstead, Cheshunt, Coulsdon and Purley, Crayford, Esher and Orpington were brought wholly within the district. The definition...
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    Pratt's Bottom (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    of the Bromley Rural District from 1896. The parish was abolished in 1934 and the village became part of Orpington Urban District. In 1965 it was transferred...
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    Biggin Hill (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    Government Act 1894 it formed part of Bromley Rural District. The parish became part of Orpington Urban District in 1934. Kent County Council formed the second...
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    Hayes, Bromley (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    An ancient parish in the county of Kent, Hayes was within the Orpington Urban District that became part of Greater London in 1965. The name Hayes is recorded...
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    Cudham (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    London's urban sprawl. It is located on the Greater London border with Kent, bordering the Sevenoaks District. Cudham lies south of Orpington and north...
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  • Division. The badge of Cray Wanderers is based on the coat of arms of Orpington Urban District, before the 1965 Greater London expansion, in yellow and black...
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  • Farnborough, part of Keston, Knockholt, Orpington and St Mary Cray) was reconstituted as Orpington Urban District. "History of the Bromley area on BromleyGov"...
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    Knockholt (category Sevenoaks District)
    Knockholt was included in Orpington Urban District in 1934. When Greater London was created in 1965, as part of Orpington UD, Knockholt was included...
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    district of south-east London, England, in the London Borough of Bromley. It lies east of Bromley, south-west of Sidcup and north-west of Orpington,...
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    RAF (April 1918 - November 1919) Towards the end of 1963, the Orpington Urban District Council (within whose boundaries the airfield lay) was approached...
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    Borough of Bromley, the Orpington Urban District, the Penge Urban District and a part of the Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District. Some of these had arms...
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    its parishes, four of which are named after it. The River Cray rises in Orpington then flows through St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray, North Cray, Foots Cray...
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    Police District. It was created an urban district by a county review order on 1 October 1933 as the merger of the former area of: Buckhurst Hill Urban District...
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    and Harbour Board Act 1954 2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. xlv 30 July 1954   Orpington Urban District Council Act 1954 2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. xlvi 30 July 1954   Birkenhead...
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  • National Council of the YMCA in 1949. In 1954 he was elected to Orpington Urban District Council. Later he lived at Derhams House, near Minchinhampton,...
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  • in London and in 1974 elsewhere. They generally arose where former urban districts, municipal boroughs or county boroughs were abolished and where no...
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    Chelsfield (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    Orpington. Circa 1894, it was part of the Bromley Rural District. The parish was abolished in 1934 and its former area became part of the Orpington parish...
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    Erith Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District, Crayford Urban District, Orpington Urban District and Penge Urban District From Hertfordshire Municipal Borough...
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  • and Wales which formed urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894 in the years following its introduction. For districts formed when the act came...
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  • area of Chislehurst Urban District, Sidcup Urban District and part of Bromley Rural District. In 1965 the parish and urban district were abolished and...
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    Feltham was an urban district in the former county of Middlesex, England from 1904 to 1965. As Middlesex was disbanded in 1965, Feltham now is a part of...
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    Purley Urban District was a local government district in northeast Surrey from 1915 to 1965. The local authority was Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council...
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