Elmers End, Kent
Historical Description
Elmers End, a hamlet, with a station on the S.E.R, in Beckenham parish, Kent, 10 miles from London, and 3 W by S of Bromley.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Churches
Church of England
St. James
The church of St. James's, erected in 1879 as a chapel of ease to the parish church of St. George, Beckenham, is an edifice of red brick in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave, and has sittings for 250 persons.
Maps
Online maps of Elmers End 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.