Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOUTING

STOUTING, a parish and a hundred in Kent. The parish lies 3 miles N of Westenhanger r. station, and 5 NNW of Hythe; and is in Elham district. Post town, Hythe. Acres, 1,624. Real property, £1,772. Pop., 213. Houses, 48. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £310.* Patron, the Rev. F. Wrench. The church is good. Charities, £18.-The hundred contains 5 parishes, and is in Shepway lathe. Acres, 7,991. Pop. in 1851, 1,625. Houses, 311.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stowting AP/CP       Stowting Hundred       Elham RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Stowting

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