This neighbourhood spans Glentrammon and Chelsfield, two smaller suburbs to the south of Orpington in the borough of Bromley. Located just south of Orpington Hospital, this area contains Chelsfield rail station and a small park called Glentrammon Recreation Ground, which is well equipped with children’s climbing frames and swings. Prominent residential areas like Homestead Road and Oxenden Wood Road are lined with mature trees and hedges and appear safe, well-maintained and child-friendly. Routes such as the green and scenic World’s End Lane provide lovely walking opportunities and connect several other highlights of this neighbourhood on one path: St Mary’s Church, several welcoming bed and breakfasts, and Green Street Green primary school. A pair of popular pubs - the Rose and Crown and The Royal Oak – is an additional strength of this area, as is the Nurani Cultural Centre and Mosque.

Old Chelsfield, situated East of the Orpington bypass, is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. New Chelsfield, on the other hand, only grew up in the 20th century. Orpington itself is even older: Stone Age tools and pottery fragments have been uncovered here. Also, the Crofton Roman Villa was found at Orpington in 1926. It dates to the 3rd century AD. Archaeologists believe that at its largest, the villa had 20 rooms.

Kevin Bishop - actor, writer, comedian and star of the Kevin Bishop show – was born in the Orpington area. In fact, this area seems to be a funny neighbourhood in general: comedian Josie Long was also born here. So was singer songwriter Pixie Lott. Moreover, David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, went to Warren Road Primary School.

Chelsfield train station is said to have been the inspiration for E. M. Nesbitt when writing The Railway Children. It was used as both an industrial and passenger railway. Also, the settlement of Goddington all started with one manor that was built in the 13th century: other houses and shops sprung up around it and eventually became a fully-fledged town in its own right.

London South East Colleges’ Orpington campus is dedicated to Hospitality, Food, and Enterprise Careers and is fast becoming a lively and popular centre of learning. Its website emphasises how Orpington is a ‘place of much development and regeneration.’ Perhaps this is why the College’s Innovation Centre is situated in Orpington. The Centre provides a range of facilities for local companies (meeting space and office hire, for instance) and makes for a dynamic community combining both education and business.

New development in the area isn’t a common occurence, aside from a few exclusive developments here and there of detached family homes. Nearby Orpington, however, has seen more activity when it comes to that, especially by the council itself. As part of Bromley Council’s ‘Bromley Homes for Bromley People’ initiative, 35 new fully affordable housing units are nearing completion at York Rise in Orpington; the council has already completed three other such schemes elsewhere in the borough. In December 2021, developer Areli submitted an ambitious but highly controversial proposal to Bromley Council involving the demolition of Orpington shopping centre to build 19-storey tower blocks and a new shopping centre, which would have included up to 990 homes, a new town square, mall, leisure complex and day care centre (to actually replace the mall, leisure and day care centres that would have been bulldozed). The proposal was so unpopular with locals that the council received more than 3,000 objections, leading to developer withdrawing their application in Autumn 2022.