A View of the ParishYour Online Parish Clerk for Leigh is: VACANT. Leigh is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of South Malling. The church is named for St. Mary with original parish registers commencing 1639. Leigh, a village and a parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent. The village stands near the river Medway, adjacent to the Tunbridge and Reigate railway, 2-3/4 miles west of Tunbridge; is sometimes called Lye or West Leigh; and has a post office, of the name of Leigh, under Tunbridge, and a fair on 16 June. The parish contains also Hollanden hamlet, and part of Hildenborough chapelry. Acres, 4,660. Real property in 1860, £6,130. Population in 1851, 1,161; in 1861, 1,256. Houses, 222. The property is much subdivided. The manor, with Hall Place, belongs to T. R. Baily, Esq.. There is a mineral spring, of similar quality to the springs of Tunbridge Wells. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £510; with a habitable glebe house. Patron The Rev. T. May. The church is ancient; had once a chantry; was recently restored; had formerly no tower, but has now a new one; and contains a curious brass without name or date, and two other brasses. There are a national school, and charities £91. Hollanden Hildenborough 1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). Please note that any active links, in the records' section below, appear in larger bold typeface and will underline when you hover your mouse on one. |
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