Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MILTON-NEXT-GRAVESEND

MILTON-NEXT-GRAVESEND, a parish in Gravesend district, Kent; on the river Thames and the North Kent railway, within Gravesend borough. It adjoins Gravesend parish on the E; was incorporated with Gravesend borough in the time of Elizabeth; includes a larger and finer portion of Gravesend town than the portion within Gravesend parish; contains many of the best houses, the custom-house, the fort, the literary institution, the Royal Terrace pier, and other objects of main interest; commands, from its higher thoroughfares, a rich view over the circumjacent portions of Kent, and a view of about 40 miles in reach along the N shore of the Thames; and, as to all its principal features, has already been noticed in our article GRAVESEND. Post town, Gravesend. Acres, 858; of which 155 are water. Real property, £54,581; of which £1,000 are in quarries, and £.1,300 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851,9,927; in 1861, 10,897. Houses, 1,842. Two sections of the parish form the chapelries of Holy Trinity and Christchurch, constituted in 1845 and 1856. Pop. of H. T., 3,642; of C., 5,631. The head living is a rectory, and the other two livings are p. curacies, in the diocese of Rochester. Value of the rectoIy, £270; * of H. T., £150; of C., £.300. Patron of the rectory, the Lord Chancellor two turns, and the Bishop of Rochester one turn; of H. T., alternately the Crown and the Bishop; of C., the Rector of Milton. The churches are noticed in the article GRAVESEND.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Milton CP/AP       Gravesend and Milton RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Milton

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