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Maypole, Dartford — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Maypole is a district of Dartford in England, and its record names three buildings: Bowman's Lodge, St Barnabas and The Old Wick.
About Maypole
Where to stay in Maypole
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Dartford takes the booking. Maypole is one of the residential districts inside Dartford, and nothing on its record, not Bowman's Lodge, not St Barnabas, not The Old Wick, amounts to a place to sleep. The rooms are in the town.
Maypole suits you when the trip is fixed to an address in the district itself, and Dartford handles every other version of the same journey.
About Maypole
What are the main landmarks in Maypole?
Three names, and one of them is a lodge. Bowman's Lodge, St Barnabas and The Old Wick are the three names the record fixes to Maypole, and none of them turns the district into a destination on its own account. Dartford holds the rest.
A visitor with an hour in Maypole spends it on residential streets, with Bowman's Lodge and The Old Wick the names most likely to catch the eye.
What is the history of Maypole?
The paperwork gives no year. Maypole enters the record as a district of Dartford with no founding date, no charter and no first mention, so the three names it does carry, Bowman's Lodge, St Barnabas and The Old Wick, stand in for a chronology. Dartford's own past has to carry it.
What survives under the Maypole name is a lodge and a church dedication, with The Old Wick completing a list that runs to three.
Where is Maypole?
Maypole is a district inside Dartford, in England, and what the record gives it is three buildings rather than a river or a hill.
Updated September 2026