A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HACKINGTON, or ST. STEPHENS, a parish in Blean district, Kent; on the river Stour, the Canterbury and Whitstable railway, and the Canterbury and Ramsgate railway, contiguous to St. Dunstans, on the N side of Canterbury. Part of it is included in Canterbury city. Post town, Canterbury. Acres, 1, 984. Real property, £4, 668. Pop., 616. Houses, 122. Pop. of the part Within Canterbury, 94. Houses, 16. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, in the 16th century, to Sir Roger Manwood; and passed to the Colepepers and the Haleses. Hale's Place, near the churchyard, superseded a mansion of the Manwoods; was built in 1768, by Sir Edward Hales; and is an edifice in the Ionic style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £412.* Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is cruciform; retains portions built by Archbishop Baldwin; shows characters from early English to perpendicular; has a W tower, with massive early English buttresses; was recently restored; and contains, in the S transept, a fine Tudor monument of Sir Roger Manwood. There are a national school, Manwood's hospital with £49, and other charities with £15.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Hackington CP/AP Kent AncC |
| Place names: | HACKINGTON | HACKINGTON OR ST STEPHENS | ST STEPHENS |
| Place: | Hackington |
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