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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SHIPBORNE, a parish, with a village, in Malling district, Kent; 4 miles N of Tunbridge r. station. It has a post-office under Tunbridge, and a fair on 18 June. Acres, 1,906. Real property, £3,039. Pop., 476. Houses, 96. The property is much subdivided. The Lodge is the seat of the Dowager Viscountess Torrington; Fair Hill, of Lady Jervis; and Fair Lawn, of J. Ridgway, Esq. The living is a donative in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, not reported.* Patron, J. Ridgway, Esq. The church is plain. There are a national school, and charities £5.Smart, the translator of Horace, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Shipbourne Ch/CP Malling RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Shipbourne |
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