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Bromley (st. Leonard's) in Middlesex County England History and GeographyBROMLEY (ST. LEONARD'S), a parish in the Tower division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, ½ a mile (S.) from Stratford le Bow, and 3½ miles (E.) from Cornhill, London, containing 4360 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London. John Walter, Esq. was patron in 1824. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small plain structure, comprising only a nave and a chancel: it is surrounded by a high wall, and exhibits some remains of Norman architecture, containing also, in the southern wall of the chancel, some stone seats. It is part of a larger edifice, the conventual church of a Benedictine nunnery, founded, soon after the Conquest, by William, Bishop of London, and dedicated to St. Leonard; the society consisted of a prioress and nine nuns, whose revenue in the 26th of Henry VIII., was rated at £121. 16. The Bow Wesleyan Methodist chapel stands in this parish. The name appears to have been derived from Brom, broom, and Ley, a field, indicating that a great quantity of broom anciently grew in the vicinity. The village is lighted partly with gas, and partly with oil, is watched and paved, and supplied with water by the works of the East London Water Company. There is a distillery on a large scale, near the western entrance into the village: and a communication with the Regent's canal has been formed by a cut from the river Lea, made by Sir Charles Duckett. Bromley is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests held at Osborne-street Whitechapel for the recovery of debts under 40s.: two headboroughs and a constable are annually appointed at the manorial court; and the parochial affairs are under the superintendence of a select vestry. Seventeen of the children taught gratuitously in the school at Stratford le Bow, endowed by Sir John Jolles, in 1617, with £26. 13. 4. per annum, to be paid by the Drapers Company, are chosen by the churchwardens from this parish. The same benefactor also founded eight almshouses for the equal benefit of the poor of Stratford and Bromley, which were rebuilt in 1806, by the Company of Drapers, to whom he assigned certain tenements in Mark-lane, in trust, for their support, and that of the school: opposite to these are almshouses founded for the benefit of decayed sail-makers, by John Edmonson, which are also under the superintendence of the Drapers' Company; and at the upper extremity, between the two rows of almshouses, is a neat chapel. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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