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Witchling or Wychling, Kent

Historical Description

Witchling or Wychling, a parish in Kent, 5½ miles S by E of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Doddington. Acreage, 1111; population, 116. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £255 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and was restored in 1887.

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 parishWitchling St. Margaret 
HundredEyhorne 
LatheAylesford 
Poor Law unionHollingbourne 

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


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Witchling or Wychling from the following:


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.

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