The Park Langley development began in 1908 when H & J Taylor, a Lewisham building firm, bought a sizeable part of the ancient Langley Park Estate from the Goodhart family.
Originally envisaged as a self contained garden city complete with circular shopping centre, church and dance hall building, it was interrupted by World War I causing all but the housing to be abandoned.
Some parts to the north of Brabourne Rise remained unfinished into the fifties.
The proposed site for the church and shops eventually became the site of the Langley Park Schools.
Consisting mainly of sizable detached or semi-detached housing it remains ones of Beckenham’s most exclusive and unspoilt areas.
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Brabourne Rise was part of the Park Langley development
