A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DOWN, a parish in Bromley district, Kent; 5 miles SSW of St. Mary Cray r. station, and 5½ SE by S of Bromley. It has a post office under Bromley, London, S. E., and a fair on Whit-Monday. Acres, 1, 654. Real property, £2, 918. Pop., 496. Houses, 91. The property is subdivided. Down House belonged to the Petlees, and passed to the Johnsons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £105-Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has a spire; contains a piscina, sedilia, two brasses, and monuments of the Petlees; and is good. There are a Baptist chapel, and a school with £5.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Downe CP/Ch Bromley RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Downe |
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