Postling Parish

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Your Online Parish Clerk for Postling is:  VACANT.  

Postling 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. Radegund with original parish registers commencing 1687.

Postling, a parish in Elham district, Kent;  1-3/4 mile northwest of Westenhanger rail station, and 3 north of Hythe.  Post town, Hythe, Kent.  Acres, 1,560.  Real property in 1860, £1,731.  Population in 1861, 139.  Houses, 25.

The manor and most of the land belong to W. Deedes, Esq..

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £246 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church is ancient but good, and has a small spire.  Kennet, author of "Roman Antiquities" was a native;  and his father was vicar.^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]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• 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]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• 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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