Erith

Erith is an area of south-east London, England, positioned 13.3 miles east of Charing Cross, in the London Borough of Bexley. Erith is located to the north-east of Bexleyheath and north-west of Dartford, and lies at the south bank of the River Thames. It is within the historical county of Kent. Erith town centre has undergone modernisation and an growth in dwellings considering the fact that 1961.

The curved riverside excessive street carries three indexed buildings, inclusive of the Church of England church and the Carnegie Building, while the district otherwise consists generally of suburban homes. Erith is linked to primary London and Kent by means of rail, and a dual carriageway hyperlinks it to Thamesmead. It has the longest pier in London, and keeps a coastal environment with salt marshes as well as commercial land.

Work done at the former British Gypsum site in Church Manorway through the Museum of London Archaeological Service shows that the region changed into covered by using a dense forest of oak, yew, and alder for the duration of the Neolithic Period, which via the Bronze Age had given manner in element to sedge fen. The museum's paintings at the previous website of Erith School in Belmont Road found out lines of prehistoric agreement, and of a huge community or farmstead inside the first century AD.