Forest Hill, Kent

Historical Description

Forest Hill, a suburb of London, in Kent, and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1855 from that of Lewisham, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 6 miles from London. It is within the parliamentary borough of Lewisham and the county of London, under the Local Government Act, 1888. Villas in many styles of architecture are numerous. Christ Church, erected in 1854, is a stone building in the Decorated style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; value, about £420. Patron, the Earl of Dartmouth. St Paul's is a brick edifice in the Early Engli&h style, erected in 1882-83. The value of the living is derived Jfrom pew rents. St Saviour's is a building of stone in the Decorated style, erected in 1865, and has 500 sittings. The living is a vicarage; value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Christ Church. There are Congregational, Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels. The Horniman Free Museum was removed to new premises in 1893. It contains 22 apartments, and there is a large collection of objects of interest. See also LEWISHAM

Maps

Online maps of Forest Hill 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.