Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LAMB-ABBEY, or LAMORBEY

LAMB-ABBEY, or LAMORBEY, a chapelry in Dartford district, Kent; on the Lewisham and Dartford railway, near the river Cray, 2¼ miles WSW of Bexley. Post-town, Bexley, under Bexley Heath, London SE. Pop. not separately returned. The manor belonged to the Lamienbys and the Sparrows. Lamb-Abbey House, rebuilt in 1744, is the seat of J. Malcolm, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £100. Patron, J. Malcolm, Esq.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dartford RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place names: LAMB ABBEY     |     LAMB ABBEY OR LAMORBEY     |     LAMORBEY
Place: Lamorbey

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