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Patrixbourne, Kent

Historical Description

Patrixbourne, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on an affluent of the river Stour, half a mile from Bekesbourne station on the L.C. & D.R., and 3 miles SE by E of Canterbury. Post town, Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Bridge. Acreage, 1640; population of the civil parish, 248; of the ecclesiastical, 1114. The manor was held at Domesday by Bishop Odo; was given in 1200 to Beaulieu Abbey, in Normandy, in connection with a cell to that abbey founded then at the church; passed to Merton Abbey; went after the Reformation to the Says and others; passed to the Cheyneys; and, with Bifrons mansion, belongs now to the Marquis of Conyngham. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bridge, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Conyngham. The church is Norman; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire; has three E circular-headed windows, with a fine rose wheel; has been well restored; and contains a handsome carved altar-piece, and a fine marble monument to the first Marquis of Conyngham, who died in 1832.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyKent 
Ecclesiastical parishPatrixbourne St. Mary 
HundredBridge and Petham 
LatheSt. Augustine 
Poor Law unionBridge 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.

DistrictCanterbury
CountyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtCT4
Post TownCanterbury

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