2023
Time Capsule
To mark the coronation of King Charles III the Parish Council & Residents' Association organised a Badgers Mount Time Capsule.
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Local history - a timeline of Badgers Mount...
Corrections and additions welcomed! info@badgersmount.net
This is a timeline showing some of the major or interesting events that have happened locally. Our neighbours, Shoreham and Halstead have a more detailed history, but I'm hoping this timeline is of interest and leads to more local history being uncovered which will be added to this page. More coming soon...
To mark the coronation of King Charles III the Parish Council & Residents' Association organised a Badgers Mount Time Capsule.
The local bus service stopped 14/4/2020. Previously on a limited schedule now
withdrawn due to the Covid pandemic.
A new limited
bus service re-started
30/10/2023.
Old London Road bus stop - opposite Crest Close.
Photo June 2022.
The former Fox's Garage (latterly Elite Motors) site was redeveloped by Hamberley Care Homes - Nesbit House opened 12/8/2019.
Previously part of Shoreham Parish, on the 7/5/2015 the first Badgers Mount Parish Council elections were held.
The newly formed Parish Council held their first meeting on the 14/5/2015.
The Ministry of Defence sold the Chelsfield Ammunition Depot on 11/11/2010, they had used this site since before the Second World War. FM Conway (an infrastructure company) became the new owners.
A tiled mosaic depicting the local area and signed by many local families was created to mark the new Millennium.
The build of the new Memorial Hall was completed in August 1994. This replaced the previous timber structure.
In February 1986 the 8 mile Swanley to Sevenoaks section of the M25 which passes Badgers Mount was completed.
Jim Novell with son David set up a plant nursery that became Polhill Garden Centre.
One of the first OS maps to show house names.
Highland Road wasn't much more than a cart track with flints and pot holes when residents got together and formed The Highland Association and started to improve the surface. Around 1965 Milton Avenue and Badgers Road residents joined and the Badgers Mount Road Maintenance Fund was born.
Badgers Mount map from the late 1950s created by H C King a local property developer and builder. Additional data showing the depth of the local drains/sewers!
Members of the local home guard, made up from residents believed to be living in Badgers Mount, Halstead and Shoreham.
Originally named The Black Eagle. It later became The Badgers Mount Toby Carvery.
When it was The Black Eagle it was known for music
events held in a building in the grounds called the Eagle's Nest. It got
it's original name from the local Black Eagle Brewery at Westerham which
closed in 1965 after nearly 300 years.
The Badgers Mount Post Office was situated in Old London Road, it opened in 1936 and closed in 2004.
The 'new Orpington Road' was completed in 1926 and is now known as the
Orpington By-Pass, A224.
Constructed by Fordyce Brothers Ltd. it was
built with wide verges so that it could be made into a dual carriage way -
the M25 took those plans away.
The station was renamed to Knockholt Station on 1/10/1900 this was to avoid confusion with Halstead Station in Essex.
Early conveyancing plan and docs possibly showing the purchase of 'Badgers Mount Farm' from the Mildmay Estate in Shoreham - more to come...
Thanks to Sue and Vic for supplying the photo.
The station opened in 1876 and was named 'Halstead for Knockholt'.
Photo of Knockholt Station dated 1898.
Thanks to Avril for supplying the photo.
Click the photo to enlarge or use the link below to compare the station to how it is today.
First edition Ordnance Survey map of Badgers Mount. Showing the railway line, milestone location (London 18 ~ Sevenoaks 6) and one property along Old London Road.
Completion of the Polhill rail tunnel. This runs from just north of Badgers Rise under the summit of the North Downs under Polhill. The tunnel is 2,387m long (nearly 1.5 miles).
Polhill Cutting
This tunnel and railway embankment is where
Edith Nesbit is believed to have got the idea for 'The Railway Children'
when she lived locally in Halstead.
Thanks to Paul for supplying the photo taken in 2016.
The oldest properties in Badgers Mount looks to be The Nook and The Lilacs on Old London Road. Early maps show they were around in the mid 1800s. A pair of Victorian cottages.
The sign reads: STRICTLY NEW LAID EGGS 2/? DOZ.
Thanks to Richard & Miriam for supplying the photo.
Cut Bench Mark on the oldest house in Badgers Mount. Looks like this is Mark no. 54 on the London to Brighton line from the First Primary Levelling, England & Wales (1840-60).
Thanks to Michelle & Jim for letting me take a photo.
Badgers Mount place name?
It's not known how Badgers Mount got its name. My guess is it's simply as it was known as the mount (hill) where Badgers were often seen, as they still are today.
Corrections and additions welcomed! info@badgersmount.net
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