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Selling, Kent

Historical Description

Selling, a village and a parish in Kent. The village has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 56 miles from London, and 3A SE by S of Faversham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Faversham. Acreage, 2454; population, 796. There is a parish council of seven members. Selling Court, Woodlands, Luton House, Sole Street House, and the Vicarage are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, Earl Sondes. The church is Early English with later work.

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 parishSelling St. Mary 
HundredBoughton-under-Blean 
LatheScray 
Poor Law unionFaversham 

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


Civil Registration

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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.

DistrictSwale
CountyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtME13
Post TownFaversham

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