Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HURST

HURST, a parish in East Ashford district, Kent; on the Royal Military canal, and partly within Romney marsh, 2¾ miles S of Smeeth r. station, and 6½ SE of Ashford. Post town, Hythe, Kent. Acres, 459. Real property, £744. Pop., 51. Houses, 6. The living is a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £60. Patron, H. W. Carter, Esq. There is no church; and the inhabitants attend the church of Aldington.


(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: Hurst CP/AP       East Ashford RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Hurst

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