Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TILMANSTONE

TILMANSTONE, a parish, with a village, in Eastry district, Kent; 5 miles W by S of Deal r. station. Post town, Sandwich. Acres, 1,124. Real property, £2,358-Pop., 405. Houses, 89. The manor has belonged, since the Saxon times, to the Archbishops of Canterbury. Dane Court is the seat of E. R. Rice, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £196* Patron, the Archbishop. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tilmanstone AP/CP       Eastry RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Tilmanstone

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