[1] It did not include the main settlement of the same name, which constituted the Municipal Borough of Bromley.
[2] It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the existing Bromley rural sanitary district.
It initially consisted of fifteen civil parishes:[3] Within a few years of its creation, the rural district was reduced in size and population when two of the constituent civil parishes became separate urban districts.
Public inquiries were held at Beckenham and Orpington in October 1929 into the proposed changes.
[6] The district's abolition was carried out by the Kent Review Order 1934, which came into effect on 1 April:[3][4]