Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROOKLAND

BROOKLAND, a parish in Romney-Marsh district, Kent; adjacent to the Ashford and Hastings railway, and near the Royal Military canal, 2¾ miles S by E of Appledore r. station, and 5½ W by N of New Romney. It has a post office under Folkestone, and a fair on 1 Aug. Acres, 1,833. Real property, £5,785. Pop., 459. Houses, 99. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £93. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is early English, and has a leaden, figured, Norman font; and the bell tower stands detached, and is constructed of timber. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brookland CP/AP       Romney Marsh RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Brookland

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