Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Thornham

Thornham.-- par. and vil., Kent, 3½ miles E. of Maidstone, 3363 ac., pop. 648; Thornham Court is the seat of the Hampson family; on the brow of the hill stand the ruins of Thornham (or Godards) Tower, supposed to occupy the site of an ancient Roman watch-tower.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Thurnham CP/AP       Kent AncC
Place: Thurnham

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