Biddenden Parish

A View of the Parish

Your Online Parish Clerk for Biddenden is:  VACANT.  

Biddenden is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of West Charing.  The church is named All Saints with registers commencing 1538.

Biddenden, a village and a parish in Tenterden district, Kent.  The village stands 4 miles south of Headcorn rail station, and 5-1/2 miles northeast of Cranbrook;  and has a post office under Staplehurst, and fairs on 6 April and 8 November.  The parish comprises 7,208 acres.  Real property in 1860, £6,933.  Population in 1861, 1,412.  Houses, 281.  The property is much subdivided.

The manor belonged, in the time of Edward III, to Sir Walter Manney;  and passed to the Hendens.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £436 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church has features from early English to late perpendicular;  and was restored in 1857.

National schools have £20 a year from an old endowment;  a curious charity, furnishing a distribution of stamped cakes to all comers on Easter Sunday, has £30;  and other charities have above £70.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

For additional information concerning this parish, visit the Biddenden Village web site.

• Monumental Inscriptions
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• PCC 1338-1858
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• Oaths of Allegiance c1720s

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• Land Tax Assessments 1780-1831
• Land Tax Assessments 1799-1805

• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
• Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]

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