A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bromley. You may be able to find further references to Bromley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | BROMLEY | a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | Bromley and Beckenham | hundred | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Bromley.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Bickley | ecclesiastical district with railway station | Bartholomew | BICKLEY | a chapelry, with a r station | Imperial | Bromley Common | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | BROMLEY-COMMON | a chapelry | Imperial | Farwig | hamlet | Bartholomew | New Bromley | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | Plaistow | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | PLAISTOW | a chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bromley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Cobbett | Jan. 2nd, 1822: Sussex Journal | 4 | William Camden | Kent | 1 | William Cobbett | Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | Celia Fiennes | Tunbridge Wells and Rye | 1 | John Wesley | 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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| Ravensbourne | 0 | 2 |
| Shortlands | 0 | 2 |
| Plaistow | 0 | 2 |
| Bickley | 0 | 2 |
| Langley | 0 | 2 |
| Beckenham | 2 | 2 |
| Grove Park | 0 | 1 |
| Southend | 0 | 1 |
| Hayes | 0 | 2 |
| New Beckenham | 0 | 1 |
| Bromley Common | 0 | 2 |
| Mottingham | 0 | 2 |
| Elmers End | 0 | 2 |
| West Wickham | 1 | 3 |
| Chislehurst | 0 | 2 |
| Lower Sydenham | 0 | 2 |
| Perry Hill | 0 | 1 |
| Penge | 0 | 2 |
| Rushey Green | 0 | 2 |
| Catford | 0 | 2 |