HAYES, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. The village stands 2 miles S of Bromley r. station, and 2½ E of the boundary with Surrey; and has a post-office under Bromley, London SE. The parish comprises 1,272 acres. Real property, £4,055. Pop., 598. Houses, 117. The property is subdivided. Hayes Place, adjacent to the church, was the seat of the Earl of Chatham, and the birth-place of his son, William Pitt. Hayes Common is a piece of land S of the village; and Pickhurst and Langley Park are a mile W. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £275.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is early English; was restored and extended in 1856, with re-placement of a spire, in 1862, at a cost of £2,500; and contains several ancient brasses and a few monuments There are an endowed school, and charities £12.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))