Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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Location. Acreage. Description.
Mottingham Sports Ground 30.00 Open space with 2 tennis
courts, 8 football pitches,
6 cricket pitches, 1 hockey
pitch and 3 concrete
cricket practice pitches
(mobile canteen, summer)
Games Warden. Putting
Green.
Mottingham Recreation Ground 5.89 Open space — children's playground.
Old Farm Park 11.78 Open space and part allotments.
Parish Wood 6.73 Open space.
Penhill Park 17.10 Open space with 3 football
pitches, 3 grass cricket
pitches, 1 concrete cricket
pitch and children's playground.
River Cray Reservation: —
(1) North Cray Place Farm 29.60 Used for agricultural
poses.
(2) Footscray Meadows 49.32 Used for agricultural
purposes.
St. Paul's Cray Recreation Ground 6.20 Open space with children's
playground.
Sidcup Place 25.31 Open space with 1 football
pitch, 1 cricket pitch,
1 putting green, 4 tennis
courts, walled garden,
children's playground,cafe
and aviary.
Stable Meadow Sports Ground 17.45 Open space with 2 football
pitches and 1 cricket
pitch.
The Oval 1.66 Open space.
Walden Recreation Ground 4.60 Open space with 1 football
pitch.
Waring Park 13.06 Open space with 4 tennis
courts, 2 cricket pitches,
1 putting green, 2 netball
pitches and 1 concrete
practice pitch, children's
playground and 2 hockey
pitches.
Willersley Park 5.59 Open space with 4 tennis
courts and children's
playground.
480.42
The Council maintains no less than three-quarters of a square
mile of open spaces within the district. Some of these provide
quiet, unspoilt ramblage, some are well laid out Parks with the
usual amenities, and the rest consist of sports fields. Provision is
thus made for all sections of the community and the general health
of the populace is thereby benefited.