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Numbers 2-12 and junction with Culcroft.
From junction with Culcroft, looking north.
The road was built in about 1974 on land that had been part of the Payne and Trapps estate. Had this estate been built as envisaged, then Merton Avenue would have continued as far as Woodland Avenue, and there would have been a road called Porchester Crescent roughly where Northfield is today (see outline of road on German Aerial photo of 1940). However as long ago as 1960 Dartford Rural District Council had other ideas for the development of this part of Hartley, which included their compulsorily purchasing the land. They also did not like the planned Porchester Crescent, wanting to "introduce some variation by way of curved streets and incidental open spaces to avoid the dull monotomy of the layout as originally proposed." Going further back in time Northfield overlays two fields belonging to the farm Mintmakers (Church Road). Approximately 1-33 (odd) and 2-12 (even) were part of an 18 acre field called Care Field, while the remainder belonged to a 12 acre field that once extended across the railway, called Haddocks (see Kent Archaeology map)
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Details of the history of the houses are set out below. Because the road bears no relation to the way Payne & Trapps laid out the estate in the early 1900s, the identification of the plot numbers is a bit of an inexact science.
| House No | Notes |
| (end Hawthorns) | . |
| 1 | Plot 211 Payne & Trapps Estate, purchased 5.2.1913 by Lavinia Elizabeth Pohl |
| 3 | Plot 210 Payne & Trapps Estate, purchased 5.2.1913 by Lavinia |
| 5 | Plot 209 Payne & Trapps Estate, purchased 5.2.1913 by Lavinia |
| 7 | Plot 208 Payne & Trapps Estate, purchased 5.2.1913 by Lavinia |
| 9 | Plot 207 Payne & Trapps Estate, purchased 5.2.1913 by Lavinia |
| (cul de sac) | . |
| 11 | |
| 13 | Plot 231 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 15 | Plot 232 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 17 | Plot 233 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 19 | Plot 234 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 21 | Plot 235 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 26.4.1910 by Philip Barnes |
| 23 | Plot 236 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 26.4.1910 by Philip Barnes |
| 25 | Plots 237 and 238 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| (continue main road) | |
| 27 | Plots 235 and 236 Payne & Trapps Estate (also incl part of orginal Porchester Crescent) , bought 26.4.1910 by Philip Barnes; also part plot 205, bought 5.2.1913 by Lavinia Elizabeth Pohl |
| 29 | Plot 237 Payne & Trapps Estate (also incl part of orginal Porchester Crescent) |
| 31 | Crescent) |
| 33 | Plot 239 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 27.8.1908 by Philip Barnes |
| 35 | Part plot 240 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 27.8.1908 by Philip Barnes; part plot 241. |
| (begin Culcroft) | . |
| 2 | |
| 4 | Plots 136 and 137 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 5.2.1913 by Lavinia Elizabeth Pohl |
| 6 | Plot 153 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 8 | Plots 203 and 204 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 10 | Plots 202 and 203 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| 12 | Plot 202 Payne & Trapps Estate |
| (cul de sac) | . |
| 14 | |
| 16 | |
| 18 | |
| 20 | |
| 22 | (part) Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding; (part) Plot 243, bought 25.8.1906 by Alfred Thomas Noble |
| 24 | (part) Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding; (part) Plot 243, bought 25.8.1906 by Alfred Thomas Noble |
| 26 | (part) Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding; (part) Plot 243, bought 25.8.1906 by Alfred Thomas Noble |
| 28 | (part) Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding; (part) Plot 243, bought 25.8.1906 by Alfred Thomas Noble |
| 30 | (part) Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding; (part) Plot 243, bought 25.8.1906 by Alfred Thomas Noble
Planning application SE/04/2298 for rear conservatory |
| 32 | (part) Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding; (part) Plot 243, bought 25.8.1906 by Alfred Thomas Noble |
| (2nd cul de sac) | . |
| 34 | Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding
Planning application SE/04/2334 for rear conservatory. |
| 36 | Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding |
| 38 | Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding |
| 40 | Plot 242 Payne & Trapps Estate, bought 31.12.1908 by Nellie Rosa Jenny Harding |