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Eltham history
Origins
Eltham developed along part of the road from London to Maidstone, and lies 3 miles (4.8 km) almost due south of Woolwich . Mottingham, to the south, became part of . the parish on the abolition of all extra-parochial areas, which were rare anomalies in the parish system .
Early development
Eltham lies on a high, sandy plateau which gave it a strategic significance . Its position close to the main route to the English Channel ports in Kent led to the creation of the moated medieval palace .
Suburban development after 1900
Archibald Cameron Corbett bought the Eltham Park Estate and developed it with well-built suburban housing between 1900 and 1914 . The Bexley Heath Railway had opened what came to be known as the Bexleysheath Line in 1895 . Suburban development of the district accelerated when the Government built the Progress Estate in Well Hall and large estates of temporary hutments in 1915 .
Incidents
In 1990, an IRA bomb outside Eltham Palace injured seven people . The area was targeted three times by the Mardi Gra bomber in the 1990s .
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