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Farnborough is a village in south-eastern Greater London, England, and prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent. Situated south of Locksbottom, west of Green Street Green, north of Downe and Hazelwood, and east of Keston, it is centred 13.4 miles (21.6 km) southeast of Charing Cross.
Farnborough is less than 2 miles from Orpington, and today comes within the London Borough of Bromley, as it has since the creation of Greater London in 1965. But it is sometimes still erroneously regarded as being in Kent.
FARNBOROUGH, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. The village stands near the direct railway to Tunbridge, 4¼ miles SE by S of Bromley; has a post office under Bromley, a railway station, a police station, a national school, a large brewery, and a fair on 12 Sept.; was once a market town; and gave the title of baron to the Longs. ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Guide to Farnborough, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
FARNBOROUGH, now in Greater London but formerly in Kent, should be distinguished from the better known Farnborough in Hampshire and from places of the same name in Berkshire and Warwickshire. It is a village on the high road to Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Hastings, 14 miles from London, and about 350 feet above sea level.
Farnborough, a village and a parish in Kent. The village is 1 mile from Orpington station on the S.E.R., and 4¼miles SE by S of Bromley. It has a head post office (R.S.O.) The parish comprises 1627 acres; population, 1627. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £203.
Jul 20, 2019 · Whether you have lived in Farnborough your whole life, or just for a few months, the town has plenty to keep you content and busy. It's in a superb location, being in easy reach of the M3, A3 and...
A suburban village situated on the edge of larch woods and open country, at the south-western extremity of Orpington’s sprawl. In 862 an Anglo-Saxon charter describing the bounds of Bromley identified Fearnbiorginga mearc – ‘the boundary of the people of Farnborough’.
Farnborough is a town in the northeastern corner of the English county of Hampshire, adjacent to the borders with Surrey and Berkshire. Once an isolated hamlet, Farnborough grew into a medium-sized town over the course of the 20th century.
"FARNBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, county Kent, 4 miles S.E. of Bromley, its post town, and 14 from London. It is situated on the Sevenoaks road, and includes the hamlets of Green-street Green and Lock's Bottom.
