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Your Online Parish Clerk for Brasted is:  VACANT.  

Brasted is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Shoreham.  The church is named for St. Martin with registers commencing 1557.

Brasted, a village and a parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent.  The village stands on the river Tarent, 4 miles west-north-west of Sevenoaks, and 5-1/2 miles north of Edenbridge rail station;  and it has a post office under Sevenoaks, and fairs on Ascension Day and 25 September.  The parish comprises 4,456 acres.  Real property in 1860, £5,877.  Population in 1861, 1,182.  Houses, 212.

Brasted Park is the seat of William Tipping, Esq.;  and was once the retreat of Louis Napoleon.  The land lies on the edge of the Weald;  and has fine views.  Paper mills are on the Tarent.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £673 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church interiorly, is chiefly early English, -exteriorly, of various characters.

There are a Calvinist chapel, a national school, and charities £34.^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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