Stodmarsh (St. Mary)

STODMARSH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Downhamford, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 4½ miles (E. N. E.) from Canterbury; containing 145 inhabitants. It comprises 690a. 1r. 9p., of which 259 acres are arable, 321 meadow, 61 pasture, 20 woodland, 11 hop-grounds, and 7 orchard and homesteads. The living is a donative, endowed with the rectorial tithes; net income, £128; patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is in the early English style.