Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BENENDEN

BENENDEN, a village and a parish in Cranbrook district, Kent. The village stands 3 miles SE of Cranbrook, and 8 S of Staplehurst r. station; and has a post office under Staplehurst. It is a place of great antiquity; contains several good old houses; and presents a pleasant appearance. It once was noted for cloth manufacture; and it has a fair on 15 May. The parish comprises 6,508 acres. Real property, £7,374. Pop., 1,662. Houses, 309. The property is divided among a few. Ponds and springs abound. A beacon stood near the village during the civil wars, forming part of a line of communication between Tenterden and London. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £112.* Patron, G. Hardy, Esq. The church was restored in 1862, at a cost of £6,000. There are a recent school-church, a Baptist chapel, a neat national school of 1861, an endowed school with £114 a year, and charities £60.


(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: Benenden CP/AP       Cranbrook RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Benenden

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