A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GRAIN (Isle of), or St. James, a parish in Hoo district, Kent; between the Thames and the Medway, 2 miles W by N of Sheerness r. station. It has a post office under Rochester. Acres, 9, 431; of which 6, 150 are water. Real property, £4, 987. Pop., 255. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a few. The land was an island; bounded, on the W, by Yantlet creek, -on the other sides, by the Thames and the Medway; but it is now connected with the mainland westward by a good road. The site of the village, on the E, is high ground; but the rest of the parish is low and flat, mostly pasture and marsh; and is protected from sea-inundation by embankments. The Nore-light is off the E end. A large fort for the defence of the Medway was nearly completed in June 1865. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £360.* Patron, G. Henderson, Esq. The church belonged, before the time of Edward I., to Minster nunnery in Sheppey; has a brass of 1494; and is good. There is an Independent chapel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | the Isle of Grain AP/CP Hoo RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place names: | GRAIN | GRAIN ISLE OF | GRAIN ISLE OF OR ST JAMES | ISLE OF GRAIN | ST JAMES |
| Place: | the Isle of Grain |
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