Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TEYNHAM

TEYNHAM, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a liberty, in Kent. The village stands adjacent to the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, near a creek of the Swale, 3¾ miles E by S of Sittingbourne; was once a market-town; has a r. station with telegraph; and gives the title of Baron to the family of Curzon. The parish comprises 2,333 acres of land, and 315 of water. Post town, Sittingbourne. Real property, £9,012. Pop., 919. Houses, 190. The manor was given, by Kenulf, king of Mercia, to Christchurch, Canterbury; and belongs now to Col. Tyler. A palace of the Archbishops of Canterbury was here. All the cherry-gardens and orchards of Kent are said to have been stocked with the Flemish cherry from a plantation of 105 acres in Teynham, made with foreign cherries, pippins, and golden rennets, done by the fruiterer of Henry VIII. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archdeacon ofThe church is early English, cruciform, and good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.—The sub-district contains 10 parishes, and is in Faversham district. Acres, 15,877. Pop., 4,061. Houses, 835.-The liberty contains 3 parishes, and is in Scray lathe. Acres, 10,134. Pop. in 1851, 2,479. Houses, 498.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a liberty"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Teynham CP/AP       Teynham SubD       Kent AncC
Place: Teynham

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