A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TESTON,-popularly Teeson,-a parish in Maidstone district, Kent; on the river Medway, 1½ mile NE of Wateringbury r. station, and 3½ SW by W of Maidstone. It has a post-office under Maidstone. Acres, 491. Real property, £1,800. Pop., 267. Houses, 55. Barham Court stands on the property of Lord Kingsdown, and is the seat of R. G. Kirkpatrick, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £300.* Patron, the Earl of Gainsborough. The church is cruciform, and has an octagonal spire.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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