Brook

Built-Up Area: Brook
Parish/Community: Brook
District/Borough: Ashford
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°9'31"N 0°56'56"E
Eastings/Northings: 606307, 144077
OS Grid: TR063440
Mapcode Local: GBR SY4.6RK
Mapcode Global: VHKKP.D4KK

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Brook within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Brook in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Brook, par. and vil., E. Kent, 5 miles NE. of Ashford, 588 ac. pop. 136: P.O.

Brook in the Domesday Book

A village in Wye hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Archbishop of Canterbury Christ Church
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Archbishop of Canterbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert of Romney (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 10/- in 1066; £2 10/- in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 4 smallholders; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 2 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (2 plough lands)
- Meadow: 7 acres
- Woodland: 10 swine render
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1, value 2 shillings

British Place Names

Brook, Kent

Brook is a village in Kent

Brook in historic gazetteers

Brook in the Domesday Book