Tuesday, September 8 TESTON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Maidstone, hundred of Twyford, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Maidstone; containing 268 inhabitants.
Wednesday, July 22 TEYNHAM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Faversham, hundred of Teynham, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E. division of Kent, 3 ½ miles (E.) from Sittingbourne; containing 845 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the London and Dovor road, and comprises 2439a. 33p., of which the soil in many places is rich and fertile, and marshy in the direction of the Swale, to which the boundaries extend. An accession has lately been made to the parish, by the embankment of the island of Fowley.
Sunday, May 17 YALDING (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Maidstone, hundred of Twyford, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 6 miles (S. W.) from Maidstone, containing 2467 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by different branches of the Medway, and upon two of the larger streams stands the village, approached by a long narrow stone bridge, besides which there is another in the parish, called Twyford bridge. The river is navigable to this place for barges, by which a considerable traffic in timber, corn, and coal, is carried on; and a fair for cattle is held on October 15th. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £20. 18. 9.; net income, £1184 ; patrons and impropriators, Messrs. Warde and Holmes. The church is principally in the decorated English style. William Cleave, Esq., in 1665, founded a free school, and endowed it with a farm now let for £50 a year ; and a charity school, founded in 1711, for girls and young children, has been endowed by Mrs. Alchorn and Mrs. Warde, sisters.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
Saturday, May 9 NASH-STREET, a hamlet in Nursted parish, Kent; 3 ¼ miles S of Gravesend.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Saturday, May 9 NASH, a hamlet in Leeds parish, Kent; near Leeds village. A house here, called Battle Hall, is partly of
the 14th century; includes considerable alterations of the time of Henry VIII.; belonged, at that time, to
Robert Chambre; and passed to the proprietor of Leeds Castle.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
