Blackfen
General information
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Blackfen is a largely residential area of Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley and makes part of the electoral ward of Blackfen and Lamorbey Ward.
The housing is almost exclusively conventional in design and most of the houses date from the 1930s.
There are two principal shopping parades; Blackfen Road and the Oval. At the Oval, there are restaurants and a number of other small shops and businesses.
The larger shopping centre of Blackfen consists mainly of local businesses; cafés and fast food outlets, banks, jewellers, clothing shops, hairdressers, building suppliers etc. It benefits from direct bus links to larger shopping centres at Bexleyheath, Eltham, Sidcup, Welling and Woolwich.
The River Shuttle flows eastward through Blackfen and along the river there are several parks and open recreational spaces.
