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.
FOREST-HILL, a chapelry in Lewisham parish, Kent; on the London Bridge and New Croydon railway, 1 mile N of Sydenham. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Sydenham, London SE. It was constituted in 1855. Rated property, £28, 527. Pop., 4, 640. Houses, 726. The property is not much divided. Villas, in many styles of architecture, are numerous. Southey says, -"It is impossible not to like the villas, so much opulence and so much ornament are visible about them; but it is also impossible not to wish that the domestic architecture of England were in better taste." The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £630. Patron, the Earl of Dartmouth. The church is good. An Independent chapel, at a cost of nearly £3, 500, was built in 1867.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lewisham CP/AP Kent AncC |
| Place: | Forest Hill |
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