Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PLATT

PLATT, a chapelry in Wrotham parish, Kent; 5 miles N E of Sevenoaks r. station. It was constituted in 1846, and its post town is Sevenoaks. Pop., 1,023. Houses, 202. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Canterbury. . Value, £400.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. . The church was built in 1845, and is a handsomeedifice. Schools also were built in 1845.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Platt CP/Ch       Wrotham AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Platt

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