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RODMERSHAM, a parish, with a village, in Milton district, Kent; 1¾ mile S E of Sittingbourne r. station. Post-town, Sittingbourne. Acres, 1, 231. Real property, £2, 746. Pop., 294. Houses, 56. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Dr. P. Panton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £115. Patron, Dr. P. Panton. The church is early English, in good condition; and contains three curiousantique wooden seats, overhung by a canopy, and supposed to have been formed for knights of St. John. There is a Bible Christians' chapel.
(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: | Rodmersham AP/CP Milton RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
Place: | Rodmersham |
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