Thanington (St. Nicholas)

THANINGTON (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Bridge, partly within the boundary of the city of Canterbury, but chiefly in the hundred of Westgate, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent; containing 379 inhabitants. The parish comprises 1212 acres, of which 30 are in wood. The ancient road called Stane-street passes through. In Wincheap-street, a suburb of Canterbury extending into Thanington, was the hospital of St. James, founded in the reign of John, by Archbishop Walter, for female lepers, and of which the revenue at the Dissolution was £46. 6. 3. Some small remains of the hospital still exist. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £98; patron, the Archbishop; impropriators, G. Gipps, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for £610, and whose glebe comprises 3 acres.