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=St Augusine's Church, Grove Park=

Before the church
In the mid eighteenth century the area containing St Augustine's Church and the majority of the surrounding area was all agricultural fields, the buildings of Burnt Ash Farm were located to the north of the site. By the 1860s there were several other farm buildings were present, including Shrofield Farm, close by to the west, College Farm to the northeast,  Claypit Farm to the east, and Grove Farm, which gave its name to Grove Park,  to the southeast. The South Eastern Main Line railway was built through Grove Park in 1865, connecting the existing Lewisham station to the newly built Chislehurst railway station. In 1868 the line was extended to join Tonbridge railway station, then in 1871 Grove Park railway station opened 300 m to the south of where the St Augustine's Church would soon be built.

Location
St Augustine's Church is located in Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham, southeast London England. The church lies on the western side of Baring Road, part of the A2212 road around 300 m north of Grove Park town centre and Grove Park railway station. To the south there are residential apartments named Canterbury Court, a Tesco Express and Esso petrol station, to the west, lies Grove Park Sidings railway stabling sheds on the South Eastern Main Line railway tracks. To the north is another residential building named Nesbit Place plus houses and gardening allotments. Baring Road is immediately to the east, across which are more houses and a retirement home named Rothesay Court, plus a building called Napier House, an army reserve centre.

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Categories
Category:Grove Park, Lewisham | Category:Church of England church buildings in the London Borough of Lewisham | Category:19th-century Church of England church buildings | Category:Churches completed in 1886 | Category:1886 establishments in England | Category:Anglican Diocese of Southwark