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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BIDDENDEN, a village and a parish in Tenterden district, Kent. The village stands 4 miles S of Headcorn r. station, and 5½ NE of Cranbrook; and has a post office under Staplehurst, and fairs on 6 April and 8 Nov. The parish comprises 7,208 acres. Real property, £6,933. Pop., 1,412. Houses, 281. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward III., to Sir Walter Manney; and passed to the Hendens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £436.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has features from early English to late perpendicular; and was restored in 1857. National schools have £20 a year from an old endowment; a curious charity, furnishing a distribution of stamped cakes to all comers on Easter Sunday, has £30; and other charities have above £70.
(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: | Biddenden CP/AP Tenterden RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Biddenden |
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