Bickley, Kent
Historical Description
Bickley, an ecclesiastical parish, with a station on the L.C. & D.R., 12 miles from London, in Bromley parish, Kent, 1¼ mile E of Bromley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Population, 929. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £500 with residence. The church was built, in 1865. There are many fine villas.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1864.
Churches
Church of England
St. George (parish church)
The church of St. George, built in 1864 and consecrated in July, 1865, is of stone, in the Decorated style, and has a tower with spire, containing a clock and 5 bells: it was found necessary to remove the spire in 1904 to prevent it from falling, but it was rebuilt in 1907, at a cost of £6,000: there are monuments to the Tredwell and Wythes families: all the windows are stained, and there are sittings for 820 persons.
Maps
Online maps of Bickley 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.