Bilsington Parish

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Bilsington is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deaneries of North and South Lympne.  The church is named for St. Peter and St. Paul with registers commencing 1562.

Bilsington, a parish in East Ashford district, Kent;  on the Military canal, and partly in Romney marsh, 3 miles east-north-east of Ham Street rail station, and 6 miles south-south-east of Ashford.  It has a post office under Ashford, and a fair on 5 July.  Acres, 2,843.  Real property in 1860, £4,057.  Population in 1861, 360.  Houses, 75.  The property is divided among a few.

The manor of Bilsington Inferior was given to the Earls of Arundel, in the time of Edward III, on the tenure of serving the king as butler at Whitsunday;  and belongs now to the Cosways.  A priory of Augustinian canons was founded on Bilsington Inferior, about 1253, by John Mansell, provost of Beverley;  and the manor connected with it was held by a tenure similar to that of Bilsington Inferior.  Remains of the priory still stand, partly appropriated into a farm house, on high ground, commanding a good view over the marsh.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £52.  Patron, W. Cosway, Esq..  The church is good.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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