Ringden Avenue & The Prefabs

Ringden Avenue

This beautifully spacious residential area, seen here without cars and bollards, is probably the only part of the ambitious post war plan for Paddock Wood that was built. The original 1940s document which was rescued from the Town Council offices after a flood, can be found in Tunbridge Wells Museum. It has been copied digitally. Paddock Wood was planned to be one of the satellite towns around London and, even then, a population of 10,000 was envisaged to support a town centre. It was a masterplan which arguably might have been preferable to the piecemeal approach of subsequent years!

 The oak tree is protected.

Photograph of Ringden Avenue as it was originally ©

This beautiful tree still survives in 2024 despite many other changes to how the road looks

The prefabs built after the second world war.

The iron bars Ringden: This image was kindly provided by Ron Scott who is in the picture