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Beckenham. — A pretty neighbourhood in the south-east, but rapidly becoming absorbed in the town, Rents about average or rather over. From Charing Cross (24 min.), Cannon-street, and London-bridge; Victoria (31 min.): Ludgate (25 min.); Holborn Viaduct (27 min.), 1st 1/3, 1/9; 2nd, 1/-. 1/3; 3rd, -/8, 1/2
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879