Milton next Gravesend, Kent

Historical Description

Milton-next-Gravesend, a parish in Kent, on the river Thames, and within Gravesend borough, 1 mile from Gravesend station on the L.C. & D.R. and the S.E.R. It adjoins Gravesend parish on the £, was incorporated with Gravesend borough in the time of Elizabeth, includes a larger and finer portion of Gravesend town than the portion within Gravesend parish, contains many of the best houses, the custom-house, the fort, the literary institution, the Royal Terrace Pier, and other objects of main interest; commands from its higher thoroughfares a rich view over the circumjacent portions of Kent, and a view of about 40 miles in reach along the N shore of the Thames, and as to all its principal features has already been noticed in our article GRAVESEND. Post town, Gravesend. Acreage, 692; population of the civil parish, 13,936; of the ecclesiastical, 14,437. The churches are noticed in the article GRAVESEND.

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 County	Kent
Ecclesiastical parish	Milton-Next-Gravesend St. Peter and St. Paul
Hundred	Toltingtrough
Lathe	Aylesford
Poor Law union	Milton and Gravesend

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 Milton next Gravesend from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Milton-Next-Gravesend (St. Peter and St. Paul))

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Visitations Heraldic

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