A vision of Britain through time
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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.
SEAL, a village and a parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent. The village stands 1½ mile E of Sevenoaks r. station; is a pretty place; and has a post-office under Sevenoaks, a library and reading-room, and a fair on Whit-Wednesday. The parish contains also the hamlets of Under-River and Godden-Green, and comprises 4, 374 acres. Real-property, £6, 766; of which £25 are in quarries. Pop., 1, 505. Houses, 309. The manor belonged to Williamde Bryene; passed to the Bethunes, the Marshalls, the Bigods, and others; and belongs now to the Dowager Countess Amherst. Wilderness Park is the seat of Marquis Camden; Chart Lodge, of Lord Monson; the Grove, of the Hon. Misses Boscawen; and there are severalhandsome villas. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Kemsing, in the diocese of Canterbury. The churchranges from early English to perpendicular. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £19.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Seal CP/Ch Sevenoaks RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Seal |
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