Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOUTHEND

SOUTHEND, a chapelry in Lewisham parish, Kent; 2 miles E of Sydenham r. station. Post town, Lewisham, under London, SE. The statistics are returned with the parish. The scenery is picturesque; and the entire locality has undergone recent rapid improvement, and has some fine residences. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £100. Patron, not reported. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kent Ancient County
Place: Southend

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