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Deptford is an area of South-East London, England, located mainly within the London Borough of Lewisham and partly within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
From the mid-16th to the late 19th century, Deptford was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first Royal Navy Dockyard. The area declined as the Royal Navy moved out and commercial docks shut; the last dock, Convoys Wharf, closed in 2000.
Historically a part of Kent, Deptford became a Metropolitan Borough in 1900. This became part of Inner London in 1965, within the newly created county of Greater London.
Deptford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Deptford district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Lewisham Deptford.
Deptford is an area in the London Borough of Lewisham and London Borough of Greenwich.
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Usage examples of "deptford".
Used to be a tavern in Deptford Strand they think was called the Rose.
Christopher Marlowe was not the person killed in that tavern in Deptford Strand.
He was on his way to join a ship in Deptford, and he had been riding there since morning.
He added, with a strange shyness, that he had collected William from his home to join him to a ship in Deptford, where they would indeed be shipmates.
Between him and John Gunning we spend a lot of time in Deptford, is one for instance, and we spend a lot of time on shore.
Near Deptford things were blacker, on the river and the shore, with areas of total darkness, flat shores bereft of human habitation or moored ships.
They went for Deptford steps, he noted, in hope to get another fare, or maybe wait in a tavern till the hardest of the ebb eased off.
But he did not converse with Holt about it until much afterwards, until they had rowed downstream at last to where Biter lay silent on the Deptford tiers.
Twelve The yard at Deptford, and John Gunning both, had suffered much in terms of denigration.
You can go to Deptford if that is where she lies and give him letters to his hand.
Biter was lodged finally alongside a quay at Deptford, but there was a reception for him that all on board found immensely shocking.
When Black Bob was ejected, to stand disconsolate and watch the Deptford shore, they asked him what was up below, but he would not reply, and ran off forward where he disappeared.
They busied themselves for half an hour with their people and the Deptford men in snugging the Biter for her dockyard work, until one of the clerks sought them out and bade them aft.
Biter was still at Deptford, Will discovered at the receiving hulk, and when he got to her was positively aswarm with dockyard hands.
When they came to the Deptford mortuary he left them to meditations in a grim antechamber and went in alone.