Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROMLEY-COMMON

BROMLEY-COMMON, a chapelry in Bromley parish, Kent; 3 miles from Bromley town and r. station. It was constituted in 1843; and has a post office under Bromley. Pop., 1,163. Houses, 237. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £132.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was built in 1841, and is a handsome edifice in the Gothic style.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bromley CP/AP       Kent AncC
Place: Bromley Common

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