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Aldington is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sutton.  The church is named for St. Martin with registers commencing 1558.

Aldington, a village, a parish and a sub-district in the district of East Aldington, Kent.  The village stands near the Grand Military canal, 1-1/2 miles south of Smeeth rail station, and 6 miles southeast of Aldington.  It has a post office under Hythe;  and is in the liberty of Romney Marsh.  The parish comprises 3,576 acres.  Real property in 1860, £5,357.  Population in 1861, 658.  Houses, 144.  The property is not much divided.

The Roman road from Lymne to Pevensey went through the parish.  Court-of-Street, on the line of that road, about a mile east of the village, was the scene of the imposture of Elizabeth Barton, the nun of Kent, who made so great a figure in the political party of Queen Catherine.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury;  and till 1868 was united with Smeeth.  Value, £850 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church is early English, with a tower in late perpendicular;  and formerly had a brass of 1475.  Charities, £9.

The celebrated Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Richard Moster, who suffered death for aiding the imposture of Elizabeth Barton, were rectors of Aldington.

The sub-district comprises seven parishes.  Acres, 16,127.  Population in 1861, 2,487.  Houses, 509.1


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

For additional information about Aldington see the Saxonshore website.1


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


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