Green Street Green, Kent
Historical Description
Green Street Green, a hamlet in Farnborough and Chelsfield parishes, Kent, 1 mile S by E of Farnborough, with a post and telegraph office under Orpington (R.S.O.); money order office, Farnborough. There is a large brewery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary
St. Mary's church in connection with the parish church of Chelsfield was erected in 1905, and is a structure of wood and brick, with a turret containing one bell.
Maps
Online maps of Green Street Green 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.