Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SMALL-HYTHE

SMALL-HYTHE, a chapelry in Tenterden parish, Kent; on an affluent of the river Rother, 2¼ miles SE of Tenterden, and 5½ W of Appledore r. station. Post town, Tenterden, under Staplehurst. Pop., 250. An estuary extended hither from Rye, so late as the middle of the 16th century. The living is a donative in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £107. Patrons, the House-holders of Dumborne-in-Tenterden.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Tenterden AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Smallhythe

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