Shortlands, Kent

Historical Description

Shortlands, a district parish in Beckenham parish, Kent, 1 mile W of Bromley, with a station on the L. C. & D. R., 11 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bromley. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 1492. It was constituted in 1870. It forms part of the urban district of Beckenham, to which council it sends two members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £25 and pew rents. The church is a building of Kentish rag-stone, in the 13th century Gothic style, and was enlarged in 1888.

Maps

Online maps of Shortlands 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.