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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. These administrative units are not currently included within "places" and exactly match your search term:

  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  BROMLEY COMMON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BROMLEY UD/MB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BROMLEY COMMON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BAGINTON	Warwickshire	Bromley, Speaker of the House of Commons in the time of Queen Anne; and is now held by his descendant	Imperial
  BOW-COMMON	Middlesex	COMMON , a chapelry in the parishes of Limehouse, Stepney, Bromley-St. Leonard, and All-SaintsPoplar, Middlesex; on the Blackwall Extension	Imperial
  BROMLEY	Kent	Bromley-Common are separate benefices. The subdistrict contains the parishes of Bromley, Beckenham, Hayes, West Wickham, Keston, Down, Cudham, and Knockholt	Imperial
  Bromley Common	Kent	Bromley Common , eccl. dist., Bromley par., W. Kent, pop. 3149; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BROMLEY-COMMON	Kent	BROMLEY-COMMON , a chapelry in Bromley parish, Kent; 3 miles from Bromley town and r. station. It was constituted in 1843; and has a post	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Bromley, Trinity-Bromley, Sidcup, St. Mary-Cray, Crocken-Hill, Southend-Croyden, Broadgreen-Croyden, Croyden-Common, Norwood-Croyden, South Norwood-Croyden	Imperial
  CHISELHURST	Kent	Bromley district, Kent. The village stands on a fine common, elevated about 300 feet above sea-level, near a station	Imperial
  Chislehurst	Kent	Bromley and 9 miles SE. of London, 2748 ac., pop. 5341; P.O., T.O.; and P.O. at West Chislehurst , 1 mile distant; is charmingly situated on a common	Bartholomew
  HAYES	Kent	Bromley district, Kent. The village stands 2 miles S of Bromley r. station, and 2½ E of the boundary with Surrey; and has a post-office under Bromley, London SE. The parish comprises 1,272 acres. Real property, £4,055. Pop., 598. Houses, 117. The property is subdivided. Hayes Place, adjacent to the church, was the seat of the Earl of Chatham, and the birth-place of his son, William Pitt. Hayes Common	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	KENT , a maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the	Imperial
  KESTON	Kent	Bromley district, Kent; 3½ miles S by E of Bromley r. station. It contains, on its NW border, two villages 3 and 3½ miles S by E of the r. station; includes, in its centre, an open high common	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  Shooting Common	Kent	Shooting Common , 1 m. from Bromley, Kent; P.O.	Bartholomew

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• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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