Description
Wickham, West, a parish, with a village, in Kent, with a station on the S.E.R., 12 miles from London, and 3 S by W of Bromley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Beckenham. Acreage, 2661; population, 1262. Wickham Court and Wickham Hall are the chief residences. The latter was much altered and extended in 1894, rendering it considerably more than double its former area. There are many neat villas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £155 with residence. The church is Late Perpendicular, with an embattled tower, and contains several monuments to the Hobbes and Lennard families. There are a Congregational chapel and a chapel of ease.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
