Bexley
High Street at the junction with Station approach,
showing the former workhouse for Bexley Parish,
now a row of shops.
The destitute poor of the parish of Bexley
had for some years been housed in the old
vicarage which stood opposite the south side
of the church until the late 18th century.
Shortly after a house standing at the junction
of the High Street with Station Approach served
the same purpose.
After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 a
Union Workhouse was set up at Dartford to
which those reduced to the extremes of poverty
could be sent from surrounding parishes.
