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Westwell Parish


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Your Online Parish Clerk for Westwell is:  VACANT.  

Westwell is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of East Charing.  The church is named for St. Mary with registers commencing 1558.

Westwell, a village and a parish in West Ashford district, Kent.  The village stands 3-3/4 miles north-by-west of Ashford rail station;  was once a market town;  and has a post office under Ashford.  The parish includes two hamlets, contains West Ashford workhouse, and comprises 5,199 acres.  Real property in 1860, £5,933.  Population in 1861, 999.  Houses, 186.

The manor belonged to Christchurch, Canterbury;  and passed to the Tuftons.  Ripley Court was the seat of the Tuftons, but is now a farmhouse.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £300 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church is partly early English, and has a tower and spire.

There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £27.1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

Localities known to be within Westwell parish during the early 1800s are Burnt House, Chalk Hole, Leacon, Monkery, and Nash.

 

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