The road may date from the 1850s or before as a lane through Conduit Wood.
It was the 1926 electrification of the Bexleyheath line that signalled the start of the large interwar housing developments.
The first builder in the area was J.W. Ellingham and who chose the site next to the station on which to build the ’Barnehurst Estate’. This consisted of 578 semi-detached houses which sold for £600 each with building starting along Barnehurst Road in 1926.
The Midfield shopping parade of shops was finished in 1928. The Barnehurst Estate was completed in the early 1930s.
