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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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MEOPHAM, or MEFFAM, a village and a parish in North Aylesford district, Kent. The village stands 1 mile S of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, and 5 S of Gravesend; was known to the Saxons as Mealpaham; is a pleasant place, built round a fine green; and has a post office under Gravesend, and a railway station with telegraph. The parish contains also part of the hamlet of Culverstone-Green. Acres, 4,693. Real property, £6,833. Pop. in 1851,1,045; in 1861,1,1 23. Houses, 21 1. The property is much subdivided. The manor has belonged since the 10th century to the Archbishops of Canterbury. Camer is the seat of W. M. Smith, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £500. * Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is partly early English, but chiefly decorated; was commenced by Archbishop Simon de Meopham, and completed by Archbishop Courtenay; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and two porches, with tower and spire; and was renovated in 1859. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.
(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: | Meopham CP/AP Strood RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place names: | MEALPAHAM | MEFFAM | MEOPHAM | MEOPHAM OR MEFFAM |
| Place: | Meopham |
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