Archer Road (St Mary Cray)

Locality
Coordinate	51.388496, 0.098508
Adm. div.	Kent, now Greater London
Vicinity	Between Friar Road and Oakdene Road; S. of Powerest Road
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Miscellaneous
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1944

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Archer Road.

Archer Road / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Archer Road is one of a dozen residential streets in St Mary Cray (formerly a parish in Kent, now part of the London Borough of Bromley) whose names were more or less certainly inspired by that of a small wood that existed in this area before urbanization kicked in: Robin Hood Shaw. That the name 'Archer Road' is part of a Robin Hood-theme is suggested by the names of other streets in this area. See further the page on the St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Maps

Archer Road not shown or labelled unless otherwise stated.

• John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London, Covering the Whole Metropolitan Police Area, with Larger Scale Maps For Central London and Index For Quick Location of Over 62,000 Names (Edinburgh, 1968), 118D (A. Road shown and labelled)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (c. 1868; surveyed 1867). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Archer Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Archer Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Archer Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised)
• 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Archer Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Archer Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Archer Road shown, not labelled).

Background

• Wikipedia: Orpington Urban District.
• Wikipedia: St Mary Cray.

Also see

• St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

Kent place-names 

London place-names 

 Place-names