Description
Cheriton, a parish in Kent, on the coast, 1 mile from Shorncliffe station on the S.E.R., and 2 1/2 miles W by N of Folkestone. It includes part of Sandgate village. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sandgate. The area is 1436 acres of land and 21 of tidal water and foreshore; population of the civil parish, 5957; of the ecclesiastical, 4798. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury, and till 1867 was united with Newington; net value, -£273 with residence. The church is ancient, but was restored in 1873 and again in 1877. There are a Congregational chapel, cottage homes erected in 1888, and a village hall, with reading-room.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
