The Orpington Car " by Trevor Mulligan.

Under his leadership a Liberal revival began, marked by the Orpington by-election of March 1962 which was won by Eric Lubbock.

Biggin Hill is served by regular transport links to Bromley, Catford, Orpington, Westerham and Tatsfield.

The district takes its name from the Kyd Brook, a watercourse which runs from Orpington to Lewisham, by which point it is part of the River Quaggy.

St Mary Cray had a regular market, and industry ( paper mills and bell foundry ), whereas Orpington was just a small country village surrounded by soft fruit farms, hopfields and orchards.

Education in Orpington is managed by the London Borough of Bromley which is the Local Education Authority.

* Orpington railway station is a transport hub served by Southeastern trains to Charing Cross, Cannon Street, London Bridge, Victoria, Hastings, Tonbridge, Dover, Margate and other South East Coast stations.

The house was acquired by Orpington Urban District Council in 1947, and now it houses a museum and a public library.

Orpington is known for the " Buff ", " Black " and " Speckled " chickens bred locally by William Cook in the 1890s.

Buff Orpington Ducks were also developed by Cook.

Unlike neighbouring Orpington constituency, a strong Lib Dem challenge could never succeed by squeezing out Labour votes here because of the presence of so many traditional Labour voters in Penge, which are quite inner-London in character.

The station is located in Brixton Road, and is about 100m from Brixton railway station ( on the London Victoria to Orpington line, operated by South Eastern ).

National Rail trains are operated by First Capital Connect and Southeastern, with northbound trains running to Luton and southbound to Sutton, Orpington and Sevenoaks, via London St. Pancras and Blackfriars.

The Queen Elizabeth Street building was abandoned by the school in 1968, when it moved to Orpington.

As the MP for Orpington, he was appointed Chief Whip by Jo Grimond in 1963, a post he held until 1970.

Direct rail services are provided by First Capital Connect to London Blackfriars, Farringdon, St. Pancras International and Luton Airport on the Thameslink route and by Southeastern to London Victoria and Orpington on the Chatham Main Line.

The route from Victoria to Orpington via Herne Hill is projected to be amongst the most congested and overcrowded in South East London by 2026.

* Crofton Roman Villa discovered by bricklayers in Orpington, England

* 15 September 1984 I only, St Olave's School, Orpington, Kent, ad hoc orchestra conducted by Mark Fitz-Gerald.

Three routes were operated by Metrobus at the time it was set up: Route 353 ( Croydon to Orpington via Coombe Road, weekday peak hours only ), Route 355 ( Croydon to Forestdale, weekday peak hours only ) and Route 357 ( Croydon to Orpington via Forestdale, Monday-Saturday, all day ).

The Orpington campus of Bromley College is the tallest building in Orpington, and was built in 1972.

The station was built on the main line to the north of Orpington and opened on 9 July 1928, and the community now surrounding it developed from that date: now the railway divides Petts Wood East and Petts Wood West.

And the Orpington Hospital in England was built as a gift of the people of Ontario.

In February 1981 the Orpington & District bus company collapsed due to financial difficulties, and the Tillingbourne Bus Company based in West Surrey took over their operations, setting up Tillingbourne ( Metropolitan ) Ltd. On 24 September 1983, Metrobus Ltd was formed through its two directors, Gary Wood and Peter Larking, buying out the subsidiary.

The newly-formed company acquired the former Orpington & District garage at Green Street Green, Orpington, along with six employees and six vehicles.

The highest ranked Sunday League team from Dartford is Dartford Vipers Men's team which currently play in the Bromley & Orpington Sunday League and train at Acacia Hall in Dartford.

The typical off-peak service is four trains an hour northbound to London Victoria ( via Herne Hill and Brixton ) and four trains an hour southbound to Orpington ( via Beckenham Junction & Bromley South ).

The first record of the name Orpington occurs in 1038, when King Cnut's treasurer Eadsy gave land at " Orpedingetune " to the Monastery of Christ Church at Canterbury.

In 1971, an international meeting of Romany people was held at Orpington, this Orpington Congress marked the founding of the International Romani Union, a group seeking political representation for Romanis throughout Europe.

Metered parking has been installed at various street locations around Orpington station to cope with the loss of the car park ; this has resulted in the exit of some long-established local businesses as the office space they occupied will no longer be feasible without adequate parking.

Since 1985, members of Orpington Road Runners have met every Tuesday near The Buff Pub and on Sundays at High Elms Country Park.

The Buff Orpington were able to be seen at Tripes Farm, Chelsfield Lane however, in the late 90s, the chicken coop was removed from the farm.

* 2001 Census information for the Orpington ward at Bromley. org

Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government – including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild ’ s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).

It was during his tenure that the first post-war Liberal revival took place: under Grimond the Liberals doubled their seats and won historic by-elections at Torrington in 1958, Orpington in 1962, and Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965.

* Orpington via Grove Park ( during the day, trains continue to Sevenoaks but generally do not call at Lewisham )

Bromley South is also a stop on the southeast London suburban rail network, with local services for Orpington and Sevenoaks from Victoria and the central London Thameslink stations calling at the station.

Hales was educated in Kensington and then at Orpington before attending Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( or St Benedict's as it was then known ) in 1696.

Backley was educated at Warren Road Primary School, Orpington, and later at Bexley and Erith Technical High School for Boys ( now Beths Grammar School ) in his teens and later enrolled at Loughborough University in October 1988 to study for a BSc Honours degree in Physical Education, Sports Science and Recreation Management.

Having joined the Liberal Party in 1960 and become a councillor the following year, Lubbock won a sensational by-election victory at Orpington on 15 March 1962, with a majority of 7, 855.

* Four trains per hour to Orpington, calling at all stations via Herne Hill and Bromley South

By 1959, the pattern of commuter services at Herne Hill had taken the shape it would hold into the 21st century: all-stop trains from Victoria to Orpington and from the City of London to Wimbledon and Sutton ( but, unlike the modern Sutton Loop, via West Croydon ).

They provide travel within six numbered concentric zones, with Zone 1 ( which includes the central areas of The City and the West End ) at the middle and Zone 6 ( which includes London Heathrow Airport and outlying suburbs such as Uxbridge, Upminster and Orpington ) at the outer edge.

Stanley Johnson married the painter Charlotte ( née Fawcett, later Wahl ) and with her had four children: Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, Rachel Johnson, a journalist, Jo Johnson, Conservative MP for Orpington and Head of Lex at the Financial Times, and Leo Johnson, an entrepreneur.