Wootton (St. Martin)
WOOTTON (St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Dovor, hundred of Kinghamford, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 9½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Canterbury; containing 157 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Dovor, and comprises by measurement 1019 acres; the surface is finely varied, and the scenery embellished with 98 acres of wood. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £8. 10. 2½., and in the gift of the Representatives of Sir J. W. H. Brydges, Knt.: the tithes have been commuted for £260, and the glebe comprises 16 acres, with a house. The church is in the early English style. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart., who died in 1837, was a native of Wootton.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.