Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Malling, West (or Town Malling)

Malling, West (or Town Malling), market town and par. (ry. sta. Malling), Kent, 5½ miles NW. of Maidstone, 1379 ac., pop. 2242; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; at West Maling are remains of a Benedictine nunnery founded 1090; Malling Abbey, seat, includes portions of the ancient structure.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town and parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Kent AncC
Place: West Malling

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