Molash or Moldash, Kent

Historical Description

Molash or Moldash, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands among hills, 3½ miles WSW of Chilham station on the S.E.R., and 6 N by E of Ashford, is a small straggling place, and has a post office under Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Chilham. Acreage of parish, 1461; population, 271. The great wood, called King's Wood and Challock Wood, lies to the S. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £130 with residence. The church consists of aisle and chancel, is good, and has an ancient Norman font. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Molash or Moldash from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Molash, or Moldash (St. Peter))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

• Kent & Sussex Courier
• Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
• Dover Express
• Kentish Gazette
• Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
• Kentish Chronicle
• Maidstone Telegraph

Visitations Heraldic

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