The rectangular bit of road shown here to the west of the sewage works is not Mile Road. Mile Road could be seen on 80s road maps; it ran in a straight line across the farmlands from Beddington Lane to the junction with the A237 and B277 at Hackbridge, but the middle section was removed following the opening of the landfill site in this area in 1998. Only the two extant sections of the old road are Mile Road; it was not diverted at all, just removed.