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[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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"MERSTON, a hamlet in the parish of Shorne, hundred of Shamwell, lathe of Aylesford, county Kent, 4½ miles S.E. of Gravesend, its post town. The hamlet consists of a few labourers' cottages. This place is parochial in its ecclesiastical jurisdiction, but in other respects part of Shorne. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester, value £90. The church, which is in ruins, is included within a plantation of about five acres, called Chapelwood. In the vicinity are traces of ancient fortifications."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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