Kidbrooke, Kent

Historical Description

Kidbrooke, a liberty in Kent, on Watling Street and the North Kent railway, between Blackheath and Charlton. Post town, Blackheath. It consists of two hamlets, Lower Kidbrooke, half a mile S of Charlton, and Upper Kidbrooke, 2 miles NW of Eitham. It was once a parish, but it lost its church through neglect, and it was constituted a chapelry in 1867, and got then a handsome new church at a cost of £7200. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £700.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kidbrooke from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kidbrooke)

Maps

Online maps of Kidbrooke 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.