Upper Hardres Parish

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Upper Hardres is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Bridge.  The church is named for St. Peter & St. Paul with original parish registers commencing 1754.

Upper Hardres, a parish in Bridge district, Kent;  on Stane Street, 4 miles southeast of Chartham rail station, and 4-1/2 south of Canterbury.  It includes the hamlets of Bossingham and Palmstead;  and it has a post office under Canterbury.  Acres, 2,039.  Real property in 1860, £2,230.  Population in 1861, 271.  Houses, 59.  The property is divided among a few.

The manor belonged to the Hardres family;  one of whom, Sir Robert Hardres, after the siege of Bologne, in the time of Henry VIII., brought over the gates of that town.

The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Stelling, in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £589 with a habitable glebe house.  Patrons, E. S. Lumsdaine, Esq., and the heirs of Lady Hardres.  The church is ancient but good;  comprises two aisles and a chancel;  and contains several very old memorials.  An endowed school has £89 a year;  and other charities have £19.

Bossingham, a hamlet in Upper Hardres parish, Kent;  5-1/2 miles south of Canterbury.  Population in 1861, 149.

Palmstead, a hamlet in Upper Hardres parish, Kent;  4-1/4 miles south of Canterbury.¹

¹John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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