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Beckenham is a post town and district of London in the London Borough of Bromley, England. It borders Beckenham Place Park and Bellingham in the London Borough of Lewisham (to the north) and is centred 8.4 miles (13.5 km) south east of Charing Cross. Until the coming of the railway in 1857, Beckenham was a small village as with the rest of the borough in Kent with almost most of its land rural and private parkland: a family of entrepreneurs began the building of villas commencing a soar in population from 2,000 to 26,000 (1850–1900). Housing and population growth has continued at a lesser pace since 1900.
The town has areas of commerce and industry, principally the curved network of streets featuring its high street and Langley Park laboratories and is served in transport by three main railway stations — nine within the post town — plus towards its western periphery two Croydon Tramlink stations. In common with much of this largest borough of London, it has a large minority of land which is a mixture of sports grounds, fishing ponds and parks.
Beckenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Bob Stewart of the Conservative Party.
Beckenham is a town in London, England.
Beckenham may also refer to:
- Beckenham (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency represented in the House of Commons
- Beckenham, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
- Beckenham, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
- Municipal Borough of Beckenham, a local government in Kent, England from 1878 to 1965