A View of the Parish
Your Online Parish Clerk for Chelsfield is:
Phil Warn.
He is open to receive queries for lookups in any relevant records held at Bromley Local Studies Library, the Record Office for all Bromley parishes.
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Chelsfield is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury [from 1860 to 1905 when it was returned to the diocese of Rochester], in the archdeaconry of Maidstone and in the deanery of Dartford. The church is named for St. Martin of Tours with registers commencing 1558.
Chelsfield is a parish, with a village, in Bromley district, Kent; 6-1/2 miles southeast of Bromley. It has a post office under Bromley and a railway station. Acres, 3,280. Real property, £4,710. Population in 1861, 784. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Farnborough, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £876 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church is early English. There are a national school and charities of £23.1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).
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- 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]
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