Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NETTLESTEAD

NETTLESTEAD, a village and a parish in Maidstone district, Kent. The village stands on the river Medway, adjacent to the Paddock-Wood and Maidstone railway, ½ a mile S S W of Wateringbury r. station, and 6 S W of Maidstone. The parish contains also the hamlets of West Barming and Nettlestead-Green; the latter of which is near Yalding r. station, and has a post-office under Maidstone. Acres, 1, 441. Real property, £3, 617. Pop. in 1851, 461; in 1861, 575. Houses, 106. The increase of pop. arose from erection of cottages, and fromimprovements in the vicinity of the railway . The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Lord Kingsdown. Nettlestead Place was the residence of the Pimpe family from the time of Edward I.; passed to the Scotts and the Botelers; and has left some remains. About 1 40 acres have usually been under hops. Gravel pits are on the river. The hamlet of West Barming was formerly a separate parish, and still retains ecclesiastically a parochial status. The living of N. is a rectory, united with the rectory of West Barming, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £4 42.* Patron, the Rev. W. F. Cobb. The church is early English, with a tower; and retains, in its windows, interesting ancientstained glass. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Nettlestead AP/CP       Maidstone RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Nettlestead

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