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Green Street Green is a village in Greater London within the London Borough of Bromley. ==History== The name originates from ''La Grenestrete'' c.1290, meaning ''the green or grassy hamlet''. It is recorded as ''Greenstreet Green'' in 1819, the addition of the suffix ''Green'', referring to a village green. Green Street Green Primary School is located in the area〔Mills, A., ''Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001)〕 The village did not historically form a parish of its own, instead forming part of the parishes of Farnborough and Chelsfield.〔Bartholomew, J., ''Gazetteer of the British Isles'', (1887)〕 The opening of Oak Brewery by Fox & Sons in 1836 was the first awakening of Green Street Green from a tiny hamlet on the old London to Hastings Road. Village life centered round the brewery until 1909 when it closed down. During the First World War it was used briefly as a barracks. It became the Telcon Plastics factory site before the Second World War. This has now made way for a new housing estate, standing opposite the parade of shops in which Waitrose, arriving in the 1970s, is the main supermarket. The first modern housing development was at Chelsfield Park in the 1920s. Intensive building, council and private, took place in the 1950s between the village High Street and new Chelsfield. It was during this period that the attractive old people's dwellings were built at Brittenden Close, round three sides of a square lawn with rose gardens and terrace.〔London Borough of Bromley Official Guide. Published by authority of the Council of the London Borough of Bromley (1971/74)〕 In 1947, the Town & Country Planning Act set the boundary of Green belt (United Kingdom) at the Green Street Green edge of the town of Orpington, by the A20 and A21 roads. From the 1920s till the 1960s Green Street Green was such a popular meeting point for cyclists that several tea rooms opened in the village, attracting trade from the hordes of weekend cyclists who rode into the Kent countryside from London's suburbs. The former Mrs Valentine Moon's teashop is still a landmark on the east side of Sevenoaks Way, standing opposite The Green. Recreation grounds are at Cudham Lane North and at Glentrammon Road.〔The Book of Orpington. Dorothy Cox, Barracuda Books (1983). ISBN 978-0860234241〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Green Street Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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