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Acrise is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Elham.  The church is named for St. Martin with registers commencing 1541.

Acrise, a parish in Elham district, Kent;  5 miles north-north-west of Folkestone rail station.  Post town, Elham under Canterbury.  Acres, 1,034.  Real property in 1860, £1,196.  Population in 1861, 173.  Houses, 34.  The property is divided among a few.  The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £171 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, W. A. Mackinnon, Esq..

The church has a Norman chancel-arch, and is very good.

The East Kent hounds meet at Acrise;  and a fair is held on 16 October at Acrise Mill.1


1  John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).


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