Place Name Named after the de Blackbrooke or Blakebrok family who were associated with Bromley from 1250 until they left…
Place Name This street was laid out over a former field where one of the two annual fairs was held.…
Place Name Named after the nearby manor house called Albyfield which was built in 1878 as home for John Scott.…
Place Name Descriptive. It comes from the Latin meaning arc or bow (as in bow shaped), which perfectly describes the…
Place Name Named after the people who put, almost literally, Bromley on the map. As W T Beeby writes in…
Place Name Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and former…
Place Name Named in commemoration of the 217-day Siege – and Relief – of Mafeking which ran from October 13, 1899…
Place Name Sir Charles Raymond (about 1713 – 1788) bought Valentine House in the mid-18thCentury. He was a captain in…
Place Name Named after the Battle of Colenso which was fought between British and Boer forces in Natal, South Africa on…
Place Name Richard Horn was a local man who in the 16thCentury was responsible for shoring up much of the flood defences…