Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOODNESTONE, or Gunston

GOODNESTONE, or Gunston, a village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent. The village stands 1½ mile E by N of Adisham r. station, and 6 WSW of Sandwich; and has a post office under Sandwich, and a fair on 25 Sept. The parish comprises 1,864 acres. Real property, £3, 889. Pop., 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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Goodnestone ExP/AP/CP       Eastry RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place names: GOODNESTONE     |     GOODNESTONE OR GUNSTON     |     GUNSTON
Place: Goodnestone

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