Editing Mottingham (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Information Board in the Southwest Area of the Tarn, Mottingham.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Tarn]] is an area of wood and parkland in Mottingham]]
Mottingham borders Eltham to the north, [[New Eltham]] to the east, [[Chislehurst]] to the south, [[Elmstead, London|Elmstead]] to the south west, [[Grove Park, Lewisham|Lewisham]] to the west and [[Lee, London|Lee]] to the north west. Since 2010, Mottingham has fallen within the Mottingham and Chislehurst North polling<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bromley.gov.uk/downloads/file/2032/mottingham_and_chislehurst_north_ward_polling_district_map |title=Mottingham and Chislehurst North ward polling district map |publisher=London Borough of Bromley |access-date=11 July 2020 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227163216/https://www.bromley.gov.uk/downloads/file/2032/mottingham_and_chislehurst_north_ward_polling_district_map |url-status=dead }}</ref> and policing<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.met.police.uk/a/your-area/met/bromley/mottingham-and-chislehurst-north/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706071059/https://www.met.police.uk/a/your-area/met/bromley/mottingham-and-chislehurst-north/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 July 2022 |title=Mottingham and Chislehurst North |publisher=Metropolitan Police |access-date=11 July 2020 }}</ref> districts.

===Quaggy===
A tributary of the [[River Quaggy]] known as the Little Quaggy flows through Mottingham; rising on the borders of Chislehurst and Mottingham,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://qwag.org.uk/river-quaggy/local-history/ |title=Local history: In search of the Quaggy |publisher=QWAG: Quaggy Waterways Action Group |access-date=11 July 2020 }}</ref> it flows through [[The Tarn]] and emerges alongside the Sidcup bypass to join the Quaggy, which continues to Mottingham playing fields (colloquially known as 'Foxes Field').{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

===Mottingham Estate===
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[[London County Council]] bought the Court Farm estate in the early 1930s and planned a 2000 home [[London County Council cottage estate|cottage estate]]. The first houses were to the west of Mottingham Road and completed in 1935. The estate was fairly self-contained; the community facilities included a shopping centre and several schools.

The British gangster film ''Piggy'' was filmed around North Kent, Mottingham and London and one scene was filmed in The Prince of Wales pub on Mottingham Road.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Nikki |last=Jarvis |url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9715067.pub-regulars-go-from-pork-scratchings-to-piggy-film-fame/|title=Pub regulars go from pork scratchings to Piggy film fame|newspaper=News Shopper |date=18 May 2012 }}</ref> African American boxer [[Frank Craig]] trained at the Prince of Wales for the bout he ultimately lost to Australian [[Dan Creedon]] in 1895.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project-c/Prince-of-Wales-Mottingham.html|title=Prince of Wales Pub of Mottingham|website=Dover Kent Archives |date=9 November 2019 }}</ref>

===Coldharbour Estate===
In 1946 Woolwich Council built the [[Coldharbour Estate]] to the east of Mottingham Road, primarily to provide accommodation for local people made homeless by [[the Blitz]]. This completed the use of the LCC land.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of South-East London Suburbs: Mottingham|url=http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/assets/histories/mottingham|publisher=Ideal Homes|access-date=13 January 2016|archive-date=16 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216061113/http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bromley/assets/histories/mottingham|url-status=dead}}</ref>