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Goodnestone by Wingham Parish

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Your Online Parish Clerk for Goodnestone by Wingham is:  VACANT.  

Goodnestone by Wingham is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Bridge.  The church is named Holy Cross with registers commencing 1558.

Goodnestone, or Gunston, a village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent.  The village stands 1-1/2 miles east-by-north of Adisham rail station, and 6 west-south-west of Sandwich;  and has a post office under Sandwich, and a fair on 25 September.  The parish comprises 1,864 acres.  Real property in 1860, £3,889.  Population in 1861, 344.  Houses, 69.

Goodnestone Park is the seat of sir B. W. Bridges, Bart..

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £201.  Patron, Sir B. W. Bridges, Bart..  The church has an early English aisle, and a Kentish late English tower, but is mainly modern;  and it contains brasses of 1423 and 1507.1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

 

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