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Womenswold

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"WOMENSWOLD, a parish in the hundred of Wingham, lathe of St. Augustine, county Kent, 6 miles S.E. of Canterbury. The village is situated in an open district among the downs. The London, Dover, and Chatham railway passes through the parish. The land is chiefly arable, with some hop-gardens and waste. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to that of Nonington, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains monuments by Chantrey to the Montressor family."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

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