A View of the Parish

Your Online Parish Clerk for Beckenham is:  VACANT.  

Beckenham is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Dartford.  The church is named for St. George with registers commencing 1538.

Beckenham, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent.  The village stands on a small tributary of the Ravensbourne river, close to a junction of several railways, 3 miles southeast of the Crystal Palace, and 2 west of Bromley;  has stations on the railways, and a post office under London, SE.;  and is rapidly becoming a suburb.  The parish comprises 3,875 acres.  Real property in 1865, about £40,000.  Population in 1861, 2,124;  in 1865, about 3,500.  The property is subdivided.

Beckenham Place is the seat of A. Cator, Esq.;  Kelsey Park, of P. R. Hoare, Esq.;  Old Manor House, of H. Fortescue, Esq.;  and Langley Park, of C. Goodheart, Esq..  Beckenham was the residence of Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, when visited by Henry VIII;  and Clay Hill here was the residence of Edward King, author of the "Munimenta Antiqua", who died in 1807.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £900 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, J. Cator, Esq..  The church was built about the beginning of the 16th century;  has a lofty white spire, rebuilt in 1796;  and contains monuments of the Styles, the Burrells, the Hoares, and others, and a tablet to Captain Hedley Vicars, who fell at Sebastopol.  The ancient lich-gate, for setting down corpses at funerals, still stands.

The perpetual curacies of Beckenham St. Paul and Shortlands are separate charges, both of them constituted in 1868.

There are endowed national schools with £42 a year, and other charities £68.  Dr. Assheton, prolocutor in convocation, who died in 1711, was rector.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

• Monumental Inscriptions (St. George)
• Christenings 1558-1640
• Christenings 1641-1700
• Christenings 1701-1775
• Christenings 1776-1900
• Marriages 1558-1640
• Marriages 1641-1700
• Marriages 1641-1700
• Marriages 1776-1900
• Burials 1558-1640
• Burials 1641-1700
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• Published Records

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• 1841


• 1851


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• Settlement Certificates
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• Bastardy Examinations
• Parish-assisted Immigrants
• Churchwarden's Accounts
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• Bishops' Visitations
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• Parish Histories

• AD index 1448-1857
• CC index 1448-1857
• PCC 1338-1858
• PPR 1858-1925
• Depositions
• Quarter Sessions
• Militia Lists
• Muster Rolls
• Description Books
• Tithe Apportionment c1830s
• Transportations
• Protestation Rolls c1641-1643
• Oaths of Allegiance c1720s

• Poll Tax
• Hearth Tax
• Window Tax
• Hair Powder Tax
• Land Tax Assessments 1780-1831
• Land Tax Assessments 1799-1805

• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
• Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]

• Parish Map
• Deeds, Mortgages, etc.
• Rated Property Returns
• Returns of owners of land, 1873
• Manor Court Baron
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