Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SIDCUP

SIDCUP, a village and a chapelry in Chislehurst parish, Kent. The village stands adjacent to the Lee and Dartford loop-line of the North Kent railway, 2¾ miles SE of Eltham; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a station on the railway, and a R. police station. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its Post town is Foots-Cray, under London SE. Rated property, £1,743. Pop., 976. Houses, 187. S. Lodge, S. House, and Pound Place, are chief residences. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £200.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was built in 1844. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and handsome endowed residences for six unmarried ladies.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Chislehurst CP/AP       Kent AncC
Place: Sidcup

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