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Betteshanger is in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sandwich.  The parish church is named for St. Mary with registers commencing 1562.

Betteshanger, or Betshanger, is a parish in Eastry district, Kent; 3-1/2 miles south-south-west of Sandwich rail station, and 4 miles west of Deal.  Post town is Northbourne, under Deal.  Acres, 397.  Real property £1,700.  Population in 1861 was 43.  Houses 6.  Betteshanger Park belonged formerly to the Boys family, and belongs now to Sir Walter James, Bart.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £166.  Patron, Sir W. C. James, Bart.  The church is Norman, and has been restored.1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

 

The Northbourne web site has some additional information about Betteshanger.

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