Monks Horton, Kent

Historical Description

Horton, Monks, a parish in Kent, 2½ miles N by W of Westonhanger station on the S.E.R., and 5 NW of Hythe. Post town, Hythe, Kent; money order and telegraph office, Sellinge. Acreage, 1084; population of the civil parish, 124; of the ecclesiastical, 889. A Cluniac priory, a cell to the house of St Pancras at Lewes, was founded here in the time of Henry II. by Robert de Ver; was made " indigena" by Edward III., and together with the manor which it held, was given at the dissolution to Richard Tate, and afterwards passed to the Mantells. The remains of it stand in a low situation among woods, have partly been converted into a farmhouse, and include an arch and some fragments in Transition Norman, and of interesting character. A neighbouring eminence commands a fine view. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Brabourne, in the diocese of Canterbury. The church stands in what was once the park of Mount Morris, has been restored, has a curious wooden tower, and contains monuments of the Rooke and Kokeby families.

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	Monks Horton St. Peter
Hundred	Stouting
Lathe	Shepway
Poor Law union	Elham

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 Monks Horton from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horton, Monks (St. Peter))

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Visitations Heraldic

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