In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kings Bromley like this:
BROMLEY (King's), or Bromley-Regis, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford; on the river Trent, 2¾ miles E of Armitage r. station, and 5 N of Lichfield. It has a post office, of the name of King's Bromley, under Lichfield. Acres, inclusive of King's Bromley Hays, sometimes deemed extra-parochial, 3,370. ...
Real property, £7,381. Pop., 638. Houses, 148. The manor belonged, in the Saxon times, to Earl Leofric; after the Conquest, to the Crown; and passed to the Agards and the Newtons. Bromley Hall is the seat of the Lane family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £210. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is later English, and has monuments of the Agards and the Newtons. A school has £105 from endowment; and other charities, £74.
Kings Bromley through time
Kings Bromley is now part of Lichfield district. Click here for graphs and data of how Lichfield has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Kings Bromley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kings Bromley, in Lichfield and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7921
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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