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Tunbridge aka Tonbridge ParishKent Online Parish Clerks |
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A View of the ParishYour Online Parish Clerk for Tunbridge is: VACANT. Tunbridge [sometime also known as Tonbridge] is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of South Malling. The church is named for St. Peter with registers commencing 1553. Tunbridge is a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Kent. The town stands on the river Medway, and on the Southeastern railway, at the intersection of the Sevenoaks and Hastings railway, 30 miles by road southwest of London; was held, at Domesday, by Richard Fitzgilbert, who assumed the name of De Tonebridge or De Clare; acquired, in his time, a castle and a Premonstratensian priory; sent two members to parliament in the time of Edward I, is a seat of petty sessions and county courts, and a polling place; publishes three weekly newspapers; occupies ground rising from the Medway, which is navigable hither for barges of 40 tons, and divides here into several branches; contains one long old street, some parts of which are wide; includes a new town on the south, in the vicinity of the rail station; and has a head post office with a money order office and a savigs banks; a large rail station with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a townhall and market house, a chief bridge built in 1775, several smaller bridges, a police station, an ancient spacious parochial church, two modern churches, four dissenting chapels, a literary and scientific institution with reading room and library, a mechanics' institution, a great grammar school, national and infant schools, a workhouse, two suites of alms houses, and other charities £168. The castle was taken by William Rufus; was taken again by Prince Edward, son of Henry III; was seized by Hugh de Audley, in the time of Edward I, and taken from him; was forfeited to the Crown, by the Staffords, in the time of Henry VIII; was given by Elizabeth to the Careys; and is now represented by some interesting remains. The priory's refectory remained till the forming of the railway, and was then swept away. The parochial church, or St. Peter's, was given, in the time of Henry II, to the Knights of St. John; has been very much disfigured; and shows, in the nave and the tower, decorated and later English features. St. Stephen's church was built in 1852; and is in the early English style, with tower and spire. The grammar school was founded in 1153; is an extensive building with old centre and modern wings; has £4,500 a year from endowment, and 16 exhibitions of £100 each to various colleges; and had the poet Cawthorne and V. Knox for masters, and Sir Sydney Smith for a pupil. A well-attended market is held on the first and third Tuesdays of every month; a fair is held on 11 October; the manufacture of "Tunbridge ware", in toys, snuff boxes, dressing cases, and other articles, from soft woods, is largely carried on; and there are maltings, breweries, corn mills, an iron foundry, a tannery, and gunpowder mills. Population in 1861, 5,919. Houses, 1,165. The parish includes Lower Haysden, Upper Haysden, Southborough, and part of Tunbridge Wells. Acres, 15,235.Real property in 1860, £103,032; of which £1,135 are in gas works and £170 in quarries. Population in 1851, 16,548; in 1861, 21,004. Houses, 3,942. The living of St. Peter is a vicarage, and the livings of St. Stephen and St. Thomas are perpetual curacies, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value of St. Peter, £832 with a habitable glebe house; of St. Stephen, £259 with a habitable glebe house; of St. Thomas, not reported. Patron of St. Peter, Mrs. Deacon; of St. Stephen, Trustees; of St. Thomas, Mrs. Pugh. The perpetual curacies of Hildenborough and Southborough also are separate beneficies. The sub-district excludes part of Tunbridge parish, but includes three other parishes. Population in 1861, 11,129. Houses, 2,136. The district contains also Tunbridge Wells and Brenchley sub-districts and comprises 46,179 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £16,271. Population in 1851, 28,545; in 1861, 34,271. Houses, 6,507. Marriages in 1863 in the district, 303; births, 1,140 of which 48 were illegitimate;deaths, 663 of which 234 were at ages under 5 years and 12 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 2,685; births, 10,226; deaths, 6,356. The places of worship in 1851 were 16 of the Church of England, with 9,420 sittings; 4 of Independents, with 1,363 sittings; 8 of Baptists, with 1,626 sittings; 8 of Wesleyans, with 1,682 sittings; 1 of Primitive Methodists, with 135 sittings; 1 of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, with 402 sittings; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 260 sittings. The schools were 25 public day schools, with 2,964 scholars; 58 private day schools with 1,384 scholars; and 29 Sunday schools, with 2,679 scholars. The hundred bears the name of Tunbridge-Lowey; is in Aylesford lathe; contains two parishes and a part; and formed a tract around Tunbridge Castle, with two great chases for deer hunting. Acres, 15,235. Population in 1851, 16,548. Houses, 2,939. Hildenborough
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