Loose Parish

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Your Online Parish Clerk for Loose is:  VACANT.  

Loose is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sutton.  The church is named All Saints with registers commencing 1559.

Loose, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Maidstone district, Kent.  The village stands on a rivulet of its own name, 2-1/2 miles south of Maidstone rail station;  is a picturesque place, surrounded by hop and fruit gardens;  includes a sort of suburb called Well-street;  and has a post office under Staplehurst.  The parish comprises 960 acres.  Real property in 1860, £6,759.  Population in 1861, 1,573.  Houses, 337.  The Loose rivulet is sluggish, drives several paper and corn mills, flows about 1/2 a mile underground, and goes to the Medway.  There are a brewery and several rag-stone quarries.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value £488.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church consists of nave, chancel, and a recent aisle;  has a tower and spire;  and was recently repaired.

A tract which had a population of 43 in 1861 is included in the chapelry of Tovil.  There are a national school, and charities £3.

The sub-district contains seven parishes.  Acres, 7,916.  Population in 1861, 5,867.  Houses, 1,207.¹

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

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