Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BREDHURST

BREDHURST, a parish in Hollinghourn district, Kent; 3 miles SSW of Rainham r. station, and 4½ SE of Chatham. Post Town, Rainham, under Sittingbourne. Acres, 600. Real property, £709. Pop., 117. Houses, 22. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £101. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is old but good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bredhurst CP/Ch       Kent AncC
Place: Bredhurst

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