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Newington-Next-Hythe (St. Nicholas)

NEWINGTON-NEXT-HYTHE (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Elham, hundred of Folkestone, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 2½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Hythe; containing 475 inhabitants. The parish comprises 3140a. 1r. 2p., of which 302 acres are in wood: the South-Eastern railway passes through it, and the Grand Military canal intersects a detached portion. From an eminence near the fine mansion of Beachborough, is a noble prospect over the adjacent country, and across the channel to the coast of France. The living is a vicarage, united to the rectory of Cheriton, and valued in the king's books at £7. 12. 6.; impropriator, the Rev. W. Brockman. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £490, and the vicarial for £235; the impropriate glebe contains 40 acres, and the vicarial one acre and a half. The church is an embattled structure, partly in the decorated style. The ancient chapel of St. Nicholas, every vestige of which has disappeared, was famous as the resort of fishermen to make offerings at the shrine of their patron saint, on escaping imminent dangers at sea. Roman coins have been dug up in the village; and in 1760, three human skeletons, with beads of agate, some pebbles, glass, coral, and red earth, were discovered in levelling a fence.

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

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