Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KIDBROOKE

KIDBROOKE, a liberty in Lewisham district, Kent; on Watling street and the North Kent railway, between Blackheath and Charlton. It consists of two hamlets, Lower Kidbrooke, a mile S of Charlton, and Upper Kidbrooke, 2 miles NW of Eltham; and it has a post office under Greenwich, London SE. It was once a parish; but it lost its church and its parsonage, through neglect; and it became annexed, by composition, to CharltonAcres, 755. Real property, £10, 236. Pop. in 1851, 460; in 1861, 804. Houses, 116. It gave the title of Baron to the Marquis of Bristol.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a liberty"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lewisham RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Kidbrooke

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