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Adisham is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Bridge. The church is named for Holy Innocents with registers commencing 1539. Adisham, a parish in Bridge district, Kent; on the Dover railway, 6 miles southeast of Canterbury. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Wingham under Sandwich. Acres, 1,815. Real property in 1860, £3,004. Population in 1861, 492. Houses, 84. The manor was given in 616 to Christ Church, Canterbury; and is now held by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; and, till 1864, was united with the perpetual curacy of Staple. Value, £750 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is cruciform, and early English, with a central tower. Charities, £20.1 1 John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). |
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