Place:


Plaistow  Kent

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Plaistow like this:

PLAISTOW, a chapelry in Bromley parish, Kent; 1½mile N of Bromley r. station. It was constituted in 1863; and its post town is Bromley, under London S E. Pop., about 2,000. P. Lodge is the seat of R. Boyd, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. R. Graham. The church, to the extent of the nave, was built in 1864, at a cost of £2, 600; was designed to becruciform; and is in the decorated English style.

Plaistow through time

Plaistow is now part of Bromley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bromley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Plaistow itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Plaistow, in Bromley and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23365

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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