Wrotham Road is situated in an area formerly known as Agar Town.
Agar Town had been private estate of William Agar. After he died in 1838, his widow began to grant building leases. Agar Town soon became a slum but the area was subsequently transformed with the arrival of the Midland Railway. Tracks and goods yards were needed to serve St Pancras station and Agar Town largely disappeared, some thirty years after its appearance.
The church of St Thomas was built on Wrotham Road in 1864 at this time and the area began to take on a different character. St Thomas was demolished in the 1950s after wartime bombing. The Agar Grove estate was built in the mid-1960s.
Wrotham Road was named after a village near Sevenoaks but until 1886 was known as Lomond Street.
