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Your Online Parish Clerk for Southfleet is:  VACANT.  

Southfleet is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Rochester, in the archdeaconry of Rochester and St. Albans.  The church is named for St. Nicholas with registers commencing 1558.

Southfleet is a village and a parish in Dartford district, Kent.  The village stands near Watling Street, 3 miles southwest of Gravesend rail station;  originated in the Roman station Vagniacæ, on Watling Street;  was known at Domesday as Suthfleta;  took that name and its present one from a flete or creek, which came to it from the Thames at Northfleet, but is now shut out by an embankment;  is much frequented by visitors;  and has a post office under Gravesend.  The parish comprises also the hamlets of Betsam or Betsome and Westwood, and the gardens of Spring Head, famous for watercresses.  Acres, 2,340.  Real property in 1860, £4,856.  Population in 1861, 717.  Houses, 155.  The property is divided among a few.

Many Roman relics, including a milestone, a sarcophagus, earthen vessels, glass urns, trinkets, and coins, have been found.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester.  Value, £789 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Bishop of Rochester.  The church is decorated English.

There is an endowed school with £20 a year.

Betsome is a hamlet in Southfleet parish, Kent;  3-1/4 miles southwest of Gravesend.  Population in 1861, 188.

Westwood is a hamlet in Southfleet parish, Kent;  4-1/4 miles southeast of Dartford.^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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• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
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• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
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• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
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