Boughton Malherbe Parish

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Boughton Malherbe is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of East Charing.  The church is named for St. Nicholas with original parish registers commencing 1671.

Boughton Malherbe, a parish in Hollingbourne district, Kent;  on the verge of the Weald, 5 miles north-north-west of Pluckley rail station, and 10 east-south-east of Maidstone.  Post town, Lenham, under Maidstone.  Acres, 2,699.  Real property in 1860, £2,945.  Population in 1861, 408.  Houses, 79.  The property is divided among a few.

The manor belonged, in the time of Henry III, to the Malherbe family;  passed to the Wottons, of whom was Sir Henry Wotton, whose life was written by Isaac Walton;  passed again to Sir Horace Mann, the correspondent of Walpole;  and belongs now to the heirs of Earl Cornwallis.  The manor house bears the name of Boughton Place;  was built by Sir Edward Wotton in the time of Henry VIII, and visited by Queen Elizabeth;  and is now a farm house, retaining some of the ancient rooms.  The materials of it are said to have been Colbridge Castle, the baronial fortalice of the Peyferers, some traces of which still exist near the church.  Chilstone Park is the seat of J. S. Douglas, Esq..

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £176 with a habitable glebe house.  Patrons, the Heirs of Earl Cornwallis.  The church is decorated English, in good condition.

There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £8.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
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• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
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