  beckenham is a townbeckenham town talk website in south east london within the london borough of bromley, england. it borders the london borough of lewisham. it lies north west of bromley and is located 8.4 miles (13.5&nbsp;km) south east of charing cross. until the coming of the railway in 1857, beckenham was a small village in the county of kent with almost completely rural surroundings: once a family of entrepreneurs began the building of villas here, its population soared from 2,000 to 26,000 during 1850â1900 and throughout the rest of the twentieth century. the current population is nearly 82,000. "beckenham - politics.co.uk", april 2010, web: pol-51. beckenham forms part of london suburbia, but it is a town in its own right, and some of the grand houses of the early days remain. ==etymology== the settlement is referred to as bacheham in the domesday book of 1086, and in the textus roffensis as becceham.origins of the town and its name the name is thought to derive from beohha's homestead (beohhan + ham in old english).brewer's britain and ireland, compiled by john ayto and ian crofton, weidenfeld & nicolson, 2005, isbn 0-304-35385-x. the name of the small stream here - the river beck - is most likely to have been named after the village. ==history== thumb|left|beckenham flooded in 1878 although early written history tells little of the area, archaeological evidence at holwood park, where stone age and bronze age artifacts have been found, reveals some evidence of early settlers. a roman camp was sited here, and a roman road, the london to lewes way passed through the district.early history with the arrival of the normans, the manor of beckenham took on added importance, and controlled much of what is modern beckenham. st george's church was built in the 12th century. in the middle ages, the manor lands were divided: at this time the estates of kelsey and langley came into being. beckenham still remained a small v
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