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))