KIDBROOKE, a liberty (anciently a parish) in the
hundred of BLACKHEATH, lathe of SUTTON at HONE,
county of KENT, 2 miles (S.S.W.) from Woolwich, containing
73 inhabitants. Cecilia, Countess of Hereford,
in the 5th of Henry VI., gave this place to the prior
and convent of St. Mary Overy, in Southwark, who obtained
from the Bishop of Rochester a grant of impropriation.
In old records, the church, which has long
been demolished, is described as a rectory, but a few
years since the civil authorities of Charlton endeavoured
to shew that Kidbrooke was only a hamlet belonging to
that parish; it now chooses its own officers, and maintains
its own poor. A free chapel has lately been
erected by Dr. Greenlaw, who is the officiating minister.
Kidbrooke gives the title of baron to the family of
Hervey, Marquises of Bristol.