In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stockbury like this:
STOCKBURY, a parish, with a village, in Hollingbourn district, Kent; 2½ miles SSW of Newington r. station, and 4¾ WSW of Sittingbourne. It has a post-office under Sittingbourne. Acres, 2,940. Real property, £3,868. Pop., 613. Houses, 115. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £325.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is early English, cruciform, and good. There are a dissenting chapel, a national school, and charities £15.
Stockbury through time
Stockbury is now part of Maidstone district. Click here for graphs and data of how Maidstone has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stockbury itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stockbury, in Maidstone and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6415
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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