Description
Kidbrooke, a liberty in Kent, on Watling Street and the North Kent railway, between Blackheath and Charlton. Post town, Blackheath. It consists of two hamlets, Lower Kidbrooke, half a mile S of Charlton, and Upper Kidbrooke, 2 miles NW of Eitham. It was once a parish, but it lost its church through neglect, and it was constituted a chapelry in 1867, and got then a handsome new church at a cost of £7200. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £700.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
