** Kent Online Parish Clerk ** - Teynham Parish (original) (raw)

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Your Online Parish Clerk for Teynham is: VACANT.

Teynham is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Ospringe. The church is named for St. Mary with registers commencing 1538.

Teynham, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a liberty, in Kent. The village stands adjacent to the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, near a creek of the Swale, 3-3/4 miles east-by-south of Sittingbourne; was once a market town; has a rail station with telegraph; and gives the title of Baron to the family of Curzon.

The parish comprises 2,333 acres of land, and 315 of water. Post town, Sittingbourne. Real property in 1860, £9,012. Population in 1861, 919. Houses, 190.

The manor was given, by Kenulf, king of Mercia, to Christchurch, Canterbury; and belongs now to Col. Tyler. A palace of the Archbishops of Canterbury was here. All the cherry gardens and orchards of Kent are said to have been stocked with the Flemish cherry from a plantation of 105 acres in Teynham, made with foreign cherries, pippins, and golden rennets, done by the fruiterer of Henry VIII.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £300 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is early English, cruciform, and good.

There is a Wesleyan chapel.

The sub-district contains 10 parishes, and is in Faversham district. Acres, 15,877. Population in 1861, 4,061. Houses, 835.

The liberty contains 3 parishes, and is in Scray lathe. Acres, 10,134. Population in 1851, 2,479. Houses, 498.1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).