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Milstead (St. Mary and the Holy Cross)

MILSTEAD (St. Mary and the Holy Cross), a parish, in the union and hundred of Milton, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E. division of Kent, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Sittingbourne; containing 229 inhabitants, and comprising 1216a. 1r. 9p., of which 277 acres are in wood. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £8. 15.; income, £250; patron and incumbent, the Rev. H. Hinton. The church is in the early English style. An excellent rectory-house was built in 1833. John Wyatt, in 1722, gave land now producing £20 a year, for instruction.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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