Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WITCHLING, or Wychling

WITCHLING, or Wychling, a parish in Hollingbourn district, Kent; 5½ miles S by E of Sittingbourne r. station. Post town, Sittingbourne. Acres, 1,309. Real property, £1,287. Pop., 147. Houses, 35. The manor belongs to Sir E. Filmer. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £300.* Patron, H. M. Stockdale, Esq. The church is ancient.


(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: Wichling AP/CP       Hollingbourne RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place names: WITCHLING     |     WITCHLING OR WYCHLING     |     WYCHLING
Place: Wichling

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