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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Downe like this:
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.
Downe is now part of BROMLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BROMLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Downe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Downe, in Bromley and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2065
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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