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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.

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

Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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

DistrictLewisham
CountyGreater London
RegionLondon
CountryEngland
Postal districtSE4
Post TownLondon

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