Bromley Common, Kent
Historical Description
Bromley-Common, a chapelry in Bromley parish, Kent, S miles from Bromley town and railway station. It was constituted in 1843, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bromley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was built in 1841, and is a handsome edifice in the Gothic style. St Luke's, Bromley Common, is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1889.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1843.
Churches
Church of England
Holy Trinity
The church of the Holy Trinity is of flint, with stone dressings, in the Gothic style, and has a tower containing one bell: the church was restored in 1884 and affords 400 sittings.
Maps
Online maps of Bromley Common 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.