Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CUDHAM

CUDHAM, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. The village stands near the boundary with Surrey, 3 miles SW of Chelsfield r. station, and 7 SSE of Bromley; has a post office under Bromley; and was once a market-town. The parish comprises 5,869 acres. Real property, £4, 844. Pop., 988. Houses, 185. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged anciently to the Apperfields. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £306. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £5.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cudham CP/AP       Bromley RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Cudham

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