Description
Chalk, a parish in Kent, on the river Thames and the North Kent railway, 2 1/2 miles SE by E of Gravesend, under which it has a post office. Acreage, 1846 ; population, 428. The surface is variously marshy and chalky. Gun flints of prime quality were at one time manufactured, and much fruit is sent to the London market. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is of flint, very ancient, and has been restored. It has two grotesque figures on the porch, and contains curious monuments and sedilia.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
