Description
Chillenden, a parish in Kent, 2 1/2 milea ENE of Adisham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 6^ W of Deal. Post town, Dover; money order and telegraph office, Nonington. Acreage, 202; population, 133. The parish gave name to a famous prior of Canterbury, who died in 1411. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £116. The church belonged to the priory of Leeds, and is a very small Late Norman structure, with east Perpendicular windows; it was restored and reseated in 1871.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
