How the rankings are worked out

Where the listings come from

From 6 neighbourhood directories: Lewisham, Bexleyheath, Eltham, Catford, Sidcup, Crayford. This site holds no listings of its own. Each name you click opens on the directory it came from.

The ordering rule

Google star rating, highest first. Where two are level, the one with more reviews goes above. A business needs 25 reviews to enter a ranked table, because a 5.0 from six people says less than a 4.8 from six hundred.

Whose scores these are

Google’s. We do not score, review or inspect anyone. Today that is 285,196 reviews across 1,108 rated businesses, read on 10 October 2026. A rating can move after that date.

Paying does not move you up

Adverts are sold on the town directories and are labelled there. They have no effect on any table here.

Boroughs and postcodes

A business is filed under the postcode district in its address. Borough pages group whole directories, and a directory follows its high street, so a place close to a boundary can show under the neighbouring borough.

What is left out

Listings a town directory has marked as unconfirmed, trades found on only one directory, and any address outside Greater London.

Fixing or removing a listing

Use the contact page on the directory that holds it. The change reaches this site the next time it reads the data. To add a business, see get listed.

South East London Directory is published by the same team as the town directories. Adverts across several towns are booked through The Directory King.