Nowadays Plaistow overlaps somewhat with Sundridge, for example the main Sundridge Park shopping parade by the station sits directly east of Plaistow Green, with business and facilities in the area using the two names interchangeably.

[6] Much of the area was purchased by the banker Peter Thellusson in 1777, and he built Plaistow Lodge here as his home (now converted into Parish Church of England Primary School and listed at grade II*).

[6] Housing development by the People's Freehold Land Society began after the arrival of the railway in 1878 (later rebuilt in 1896).

[citation needed] The churchyard closed for burials in 1893 when Plaistow Cemetery opened.

[8][6] In 1926 a wall was built along Valeswood Road after complaints by local residents that 'vulgar' working class persons from the Downham estate were cutting through the area on their way to Bromley town centre.