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St. Mary & St. Ethelburga Church
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A View of the Parish Your Online Parish Clerk for Lyminge is: VACANT. Lyminge is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Elham. The church is named for St. Mary & St. Ethelburga with registers commencing 1679. Lyminge is a village and a parish in Elham district, Kent. The village stands 1-3/4 miles east of Stane Street, 3-1/2 miles northeast of Westenhanger rail station, and 3-3/4 miles north of Hythe; has a post office under Hythe; and will have a station on the Elham Valley railway, which was begun to be forwarded in 1867. The parish comprises 4,459 acres. Real property in 1860, £4,078. Population, 938. Houses, 156. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to a nunnery founded here in 633, by Ethelburga, daughter of King Ethelbert; passed to the Archbishops of Canterbury; was surrendered by Archbishop Cranmer to the Crown; went through various possessors to Lord Loughborough; and belongs now to Stephen Kelcey Esq.. The nunnery was destroyed by the Danes, and early disappeared. A spring, called St. Eadburg's well, is near the church, and emits a head-stream of the Little Stour river. Upwards of 1,000 acres are under wood; and part of the land is hilly, with a light poor soil; but the rest is very fertile. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Paddlesworth, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £920 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, the Rev. R. C. Jenkins. The church belonged to the nunnery; was built out of the materials of a Roman structure, some remains of which still exist; is mentioned in charters of Wihtred and Cuthred, of the years 697 and 804; was the burial place of Ethelburga; comprises nave, north aisle, and chancel, with a remarkable flying buttress; and was recently repaired. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school and charities £38. The Elham workhouse also is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 215 inmates.¹ ¹John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).
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