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Bexley Heath, Kent

Historical Description

Bexley-Heath, a village and an ecclesiastical and civil parish formed out of the old parish of Bexley, Kent. The village stands 1½ mile NW of Bexley railway station, is modern, large, and increasing, and has a post office under Woolwich, a police station, a cemetery, a cottage hospital, a large public hall, three dissenting chapels, Constitutional, Liberal, Radical, and Social clubs. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 6385. Christ Church is a building of Kentish ragstone in the Gothic style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £300 with residence.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1842.

Findmypast have the following online for Bexleyheath, Cemetery: burials 1879-1943


Churches

Church of England

Christ Church (parish church)

Christ Church, erected in 1877, is of Kentish ragstone, in the Gothic style: there are 12 stained windows, besides several memorial windows: the church has 900 sittings, half of which are free.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.

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