Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CAPEL, or Caple

CAPEL, or Caple, a parish in Tunbridge district, Kent; near the Southeastern railway, 3 miles SE of Tunbridge. Post Town, Tunbridge. Acres, 1,568. Real property, £3,261. Pop., 611. Houses, 115. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Tudeley, in the dio. of Canterbury. The church is small, but has a steeple. There is a national school.


(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: Capel Ch/CP       Tonbridge RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place names: CAPEL     |     CAPEL OR CAPLE     |     CAPLE
Place: Capel

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