Buy books and maps

We have many books on the history of the area and maps available from the Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre.

If you wish to order and purchase a map or book please contact us at archives@bexley.gov.uk.

Items to order

Title Price
Along the River Cray: a pictorial history of the Cray Valley by Katherine Harding and Denise Baldwin £8
Bexley Deneholes by R. F. Le Gear £2
The Bexley Heath Phenomenon by J.C.M. Shaw £1.50
Blendon: from the earliest times by Roger Mayo £6
Boswell’s Bexley: a photographer’s view of the borough, 1890 to 1950 / by Penny Duggan £18
The Chronic inventor: the life and work of Hiram Stevens Maxim by J.E. Hamilton £3.50
Crayford: a history by E.O. Thomas £9.50
Discover Bexley and Sidcup by Darrell Spurgeon £5
Discover Erith and Crayford by Darrell Spurgeon £5
Foots Cray by Gertrude Nunns £1.50
Foster's Primary School by Bill Price £2
The History of Danson by Ruth Hutcherson £1.50
History of Erith: Part 1 by John Prichard £1
History of Erith: Part 2 by John Prichard £1
History of Erith: Part 4 by John Prichard £1
History of Erith: Part 5 Belvedere and Bostall by John Prichard £1
The House of Broken Fortunes by Oliver Wooller £7.50
Lost Pubs of Bexley: pubs created after 1830 and since closed by Jim Packer £7.95
Medieval Bexley by F.R.H. Du Boulay £2.50
Memories of Erith and Crayford by Frances Sweeny £5.50
Over the Road: East Wickham, Welling, Bexley and Crayford in old photographs by Mick Scott £2.50
Pluto: World War II's best-kept secret by Bob Knight, Harry Smith and Barry Barnett £3.95
The Roman Settlement at Welling by Derek Garrod and Brian Philp £3
Slade Green and the Crayford Marshes by E.O. Thomas £4
The Story of Barnehurst by E.O. Thomas £2.50
Under the Road: archaeological discoveries at the Bronze Age Way, Erith by Maureen Bennell £3
Woodmen and Fenmen: Blackfen's story by Penny Duggan £9.50

18th-century maps
Title Price
Bowen's Maps of Kent c1762 £2
Hasted's - Bromley, Beckenham and Ruxley (Bexley South) 1778 50p
Hasted's - Little and Lesness (Bexley North) 1778 50p
MOGG'S Twenty Four Miles Round London and Crystal Palace Excursion Map £2
Bexley Bomb Map £1
The Hundreds of Blackheath, Bromley and Beckenham, Lesnes and Ruxley from Andrews, Dury and Herbert's map of Kent, 1769 £1

Ordnance Survey maps 1862-1908

Reprints of Ordnance Survey maps, published by Alan Godfrey - scale c.15” to 1 mile
Title Price
Barnehurst 1897 £3.50
Bexley 1870 £3.50
Bexley 1895 £3.50
Bexley 1908 £3.50
Bexley Heath 1862 £3.50
Bexleyheath (North) 1895 £3.50
Belvedere 1895 £3.50
Crayford 1907 £3.50
East Wickham and Welling 1862 £3.50
East Wickham and Welling 1894 £3.50
Erith 1864 £3.50
Lamorbey and North Sidcup 1895 £3.50
North Cray 1895 £3.50
Sidcup 1908 £3.50
North Woolwich 1869 £3.50
North Woolwich 1894 £3.50
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