Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CROCKENHILL

CROCKENHILL, a chapelry in Eynesford and St. Mary-Cray parishes, Kent; near the Mid Kent railway, 1¼ mile SW of Sevenoaks Junction station, and 6½ ESE of Bromley. Post town, Eynesford, under Dartford. Pop., 677. Houses, 121. The chapelry was constituted in 1852. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £100.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is in the early English style.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kent AncC
Place: Crockenhill

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