Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lyminge

Lyminge, par. and vil., Kent, 3½ miles N. of Hythe, 4617 ac., pop. 854; P.O.; a Benedictine nunnery was founded here in 633; the church is one of the most ancient in Kent.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lyminge AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Lyminge

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