Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YALDING

YALDING, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Maidstone district, Kent. The village stands near the confluence of the rivers Medway, Beult, and They e, 1 mile E of the Strood and Paddock-Wood railway, and 5½ SW of Maidstone; was once a market-town; was desolated by the plague in 1510, 1603, 1609, and 1666; is subject to inundation, in wet seasons, by the rivers; enjoys advantages of navigation by barges on the Medway: and has a post-office‡ under Staplehurst, a r. station with telegraph, and fairs on Easter Tuesday and 11 and 15 Oct. The parish includes Collier-Street hamlet, and comprises 5,804 acres. Real property, £15,399. Pop., 2,706. Houses, 509. The property is much sub-divided. Court Lodge, Bowhill, Down House, and Kenward are chief residences. Hops and fruit are largely grown. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £1,184.* Patron, J. R. Warde, Esq. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good. The vicarage of St. Margaret, with a church at Collier-Street, is a separate benefice of the value of £100, in the patronage of the Rev. F. R. Chapman. There are a Baptist chapel, an endowed school with £59 a year, a handsome national school of 1857 at Yalding, a national school at Collier-Street, and charities £41.--The subdistrict contains 5 parishes. Acres, 10,807. Pop., 4,882. Houses, 928.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yalding CP/AP       Yalding SubD       Maidstone RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Yalding

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