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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 "NEW BECKENHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BROMLEY	Kent	new town hall, good inns, a church, three dissenting chapels, a college for clergymen's widows, a National school, and a literary institute. The church is chiefly perpendicular English, mainly rebuilt in 1829, and consisting of nave, chancel, and aisles; has, at the west end, an ancient embattled tower, surmounted by a cupola; and contains a Norman font, a brass of 1356, a monument of Dr. Hawkesworth, the chief writer of the "Adventure," and the graves of Bishop Pearce, Bishop Tonge, and the wife of Dr. Johnson. The college is a large brick structure, founded in 1666, by Bishop Warner	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Beckenham, Chelsfield, Chiselhurst, Crayford, Footscray, North Cray, St. Paul's-Cray, and Keston; the vicarages of Addington, Bexley, Croydon, Cudham, Dartford, Erith, Hayes, Horton-Kirby, Orpington, Sutton-at-Home, West-Wickham, and Wilmington; and the p. curacies of Bexley-Heath, Bromley, Trinity-Bromley, Sidcup, St. Mary-Cray, Crocken-Hill, Southend-Croyden, Broadgreen-Croyden, Croyden-Common, Norwood-Croyden, South Norwood-Croyden, Shirley-Croyden, Downe, Farnborough, and Lamorbey. The deanery of North Malling includes the rectories of Addington, Allington, Barming, Ditton, Hunton, Leybourne, Mereworth, Netthestead, West Barming, Offham, West Peckham, and Trotterscliffe; the vicarages of Birling, East Farleigh, West Farleigh, Hadlow, East	Imperial
  CROYDON	Surrey	Beckenham branch of the Southeastern comes in near the Brighton on the E; and there are three stations, one for the Brighton line, one for the Wimbledon and Epsom branches, and one for the Beckenham and Sydenham branch. A horse railway, from Merstham, through Croydon, to Wandsworth, was formed in 1801-3; an atmospheric railway also was tried; and a canal from Croydon to Deptford gave place to the Croydon and London railway, which became amalgamated with the Brighton. The original town stood farther west than the present one; was long thought to have been the Noviomagus of the Romans	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	KENT , a maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	new works constructed, to relieve the pressure on it; and has, in connexion with it, the remarkably large and splendid hotel noticed in our section on Structure.-The London, Chatham, and Dover company were authorized in 1860 to make three extensions in connexion with the metropolis; the first a railway 4 miles and 21 chains in length, from a junction at Beckenham	Imperial
  LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY	Kent London	Beckenham with the Farnborough extension of the West End and Crystal Palace to Herne-Hill, with two junctions into the Brighton and South Coast at Penge,- a line of 4 miles and 32 chains from the preceding at Herne-Hill, across the Thames at Blackfriars, to the eastward side of Faringdon-street, with two junctions into the Metropolitan respectively near Victoria-street and at Smithfield,-and a line of 2 miles and 65 chains from Herne-Hill into connexion with the Victoria Station and Pimlico at Battersea, with a short junction into the Southwestern at Battersea, and another short junction	Imperial
  New Beckenham	Kent	New Beckenham , ry. sta., Beckenham, Kent, 8 miles SE. of London Bridge.	Bartholomew

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