Bredgar Parish

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Bredgar is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sittingbourne.  The church is named for St. John the Baptist with registers commencing 1546.

Bredgar, a parish in Milton district, Kent;  among the chalk hills, 3 miles south-south-west of Sittingbourne rail station.  It has a post office under Sittingbourne.  Acres, 1,727.  Real property in 1860, £3,876.  Population in 1861, 547.  Houses, 117.  The property is much subdivided.

Bredgar House is a chief residence.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £180 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, Sir E. Dering, Bart..  The church is perpendicular English, with a curious Norman doorway under the tower;  has Roman bricks in its walls;  contains a brass of 1508;  and is in good condition.  A chantry or small college was founded in it, in the time of Richard II, by Robert de Bredgar.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1869, and charities £28.^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
• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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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• Visitation, 1612