A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
EDENBRIDGE, a village and a parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent. The village stands on the river Eden, adjacent to the Southeastern railway, 8 miles W of Tunbridge; and has a station on the railway with telegraph, a head post office, ‡ designated Edenbridge, Kent, and a market on 4th Tuesday of every month. The parish comprises 7, 020 acres. Real property, £7, 667. Pop., 1, 736. Houses, 335. The southern district is hilly, and formerly had iron mines. Several chalybeate springs occur, and one saline. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £427.* Patron, F. R. Gore, Esq. The church has some Norman portions, but is chiefly early and later English; and it has a western steeple and a brass of 1558, and was restored in 1860. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Edenbridge CP/Ch Sevenoaks RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Edenbridge |
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