Brockley, Kent
Historical Description
Brockley is a rapidly increasing suburb of London, in Kent, with a station about 3½ miles from London Bridge on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, and is in the Parliamentary borough of Deptford, and within the county of London as constituted by the Local Government Act, 1888. St Peter's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed December 1871 from Deptford St Paul civil parish. The church is a cruciform building in the Flemish Gothic style, and will seat 1100 persons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; value, about £900, all from pew rents. There is no endowment of any kind. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. There are Presbyterian, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Congregational chapels. St John's is a portion of this district, and has a station on the S.E.R.
Maps
Online maps of Brockley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.