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West Kingsdown is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Rochester, in the archdeaconry of Rochester and St. Albans.  The church is named for St. Edmund with original registers commencing 1725.

Kingsdown (West, or by-Dartford) is a parish in Dartford district, Kent;  3 miles southeast of Eynesford rail station, and 7-1/2 miles south-south-east of Dartford.  It contains the chapelry of Maplescombe, the manor of Woodland, and the hamlet of Portobello;  and its post town is Farningham, under Dartford.  Acres, 2,780.  Real property in 1860, £2,738.  Population in 1861, 428.  Houses, 88.  About 80 acres are under hops.

The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Maplescombe, in the diocese of Rochester.  Value, £382 with a habitable glebe house.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester.  The church comprises nave and chancel, with a porch;  and has some fragments of stained glass, of the 14th century.

Maplescombe is a hamlet in Kingsdown parish, Kent;  1-1/2 miles southeast of Farningham.  It was formerly a parish;  and it still ranks as a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Kingsdown, in the diocese of Rochester.  The church is in ruins.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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