Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RODMERSHAM

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))

Linked entities:
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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