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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mottingham like this:
MOTTINGHAM, a hamlet in Eltham parish, Kent; 3¼ miles S of Woolwich. It has a wall letter-box under Eltham, London SE. Acres, 638. Real property, £1,194. Pop., 142. Houses, 24.
Mottingham is now part of BROMLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BROMLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mottingham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mottingham, in Bromley and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6287
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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