11 Facts About Mottingham

Mottingham is a district of south-east London, England, in the London Boroughs of Bromley and Greenwich.

Mottingham is a hamlet, lying partly in this parish, and partly in that of Chesilhurst, at about a mile southward from Eltham church.

Mottingham was originally a farming hamlet, with a few large houses on Mottingham Lane, one of them Fairy Hall.

Mottingham station opened in 1866, but was originally named for Eltham.

Mottingham was originally a hamlet in Eltham parish, in the Blackheath hundred of Kent.

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In 1866, the same year the station was opened, Mottingham was separated from Eltham as a distinct civil parish.

Sir Robert Geffrye's almshouses on Mottingham Road were built by the Ironmongers' Company in 1912 to replace the almshouses in Hoxton that are now the Museum of the Home; they were remodelled by the Greater London Council and additional housing built in the grounds.

Martins Bank had a branch in Mottingham village, facing the war memorial; it was the first branch of the bank to undergo an armed raid, in 1967.

Mottingham has a branch of the fraternal order Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity.

Mottingham village contains a sign depicting Eltham College within the branches of a tree, a cricket bat and ball and the date AD 862.

Since 2010, Mottingham has fallen within the Mottingham and Chislehurst North polling and policing districts.