Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOODNESTONE

GOODNESTONE, a parish in Faversham district, Kent; adjacent to the Chatham and Margate railway, 2 miles E of Faversham. Post town, Faversham. Acres, 334. Real property, £1, 036. Pop., 78. Houses, 12. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage united with the vicarage of Graveney, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £400.* Patrons, the Archbishop of Canterbury and J. H. Lade, Esq. The church is ancient but good; and there are alms-houses-with £45.


(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: Goodnestone AP/CP       Faversham RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Goodnestone

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