London Borough of Bromley

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Geography
London Borough of Bromley
Shown within Greater London
Status	London borough
Area — Total	Ranked 211th 150.15 km²
ONS code	00AF
Admin HQ	Stockwell Close, Bromley
Demographics
Population — Total (2005 est.) — Density	Ranked 17th (of 354) 301,900 2,011 / km²
Ethnicity	91.6% White 2.6% South Asian 2.9% Afro-Caribbean
Politics
Leadership	Leader (Cllr Stephen Carr) & Cabinet
Mayor	Cllr Charles Joel
Executive	Conservative
MPs	John Horam Jacqui Lait Bob Neill
London Assembly — Member	Bexley and Bromley Bob Neill
Coat of Arms

Official website	http://www.bromley.gov.uk/

The London Borough of Bromley is a London Borough of outer southeast London, England. It has an area of 59 square miles (153 km²), of which the majority is green belt land. The borough is the largest in Greater London in terms of area. Most of the settlement is in the north and west of the borough, with an outlier at Biggin Hill in the far south. The borough is twinned with Neuwied, Germany. It includes the areas

Anerley which includes Crystal Palace
Beckenham (including Eden Park, Elmers End, New Beckenham, Upper Elmers End)
Bickley
Biggin Hill
Bromley with Bromley Park, Park Langley, Plaistow, Shortlands and Widmore
Bromley Common
Chelsfield
Chislehurst and Chislehurst West
Downe
Elmstead
Farnborough including Locksbottom
Green Street Green
Hayes
Keston and the nearby settlement of Nash
Kevington
Mottingham (part of)
Orpington and its outskirts of Crofton, Derry Downs, and Goddington
Penge
Petts Wood
Pratt's Bottom
Shortlands
Southborough
St Mary Cray with Poverest
St Paul's Cray
Sundridge
West Wickham and nearby Coney Hall

[edit] History

The borough was formed, as were all other London boroughs, on April 1, 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It comprised the former area of the Municipal Borough of Bromley, the Municipal Borough of Beckenham, Penge Urban District, Orpington Urban District and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.

In 1969 the village of Knockholt, which until 1965 had been part of the Orpington Urban District,(and thereafter the London Borough of Bromley) was transferred to the Sevenoaks Rural District (now Sevenoaks District) of Kent after a vociferous campaign by local villagers.