Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROOMFIELD

BROOMFIELD, a parish in Hollingbourn district, Kent; on an affluent of the Medway, 6 miles ESE of Maidstone r. station. Post Town, Leeds, under Maidstone. Acres, 1,430. Real property, £1,431. Pop., 150. Houses, 25. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Leeds, in the diocese of Canterbury. The church is good. A fair is held on 16th May.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Broomfield Ch/CP       Hollingbourne RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Broomfield

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