The Harvington Estate

The Harvington Estate on South Eden Park Rd, Beckenham, grew from a mainly Victorian group of large houses with their stables and entrance lodges that were built in the 1870s. There were also two earlier houses constructed in about 1834 to the north. These were Eden Lodge and Eden Cottage, later called Eden Manor. Of these seven houses only one, Oakfield, remains today although there are four of the lodges; the gate lodge of Eden Lodge, Harvington, Homewood and Chalfont.

This small A5 book of 30pages was written for the Friends of Harvington as a guide to the history of today’s Harvington Estate and explains the origin of the name. The picture shows the oak trees planted by Beckenham’s Mayors in 1953 to commemorate the Queen’s Coronation, now forming The Mayoral Avenue.

The booklet costs £3.00 p&p is £1.10