Description
Elham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Stour, 6 miles NNE of Hythe, and has a station on the S.E.R., 71 miles from London. It has a post and. money order office under Canterbury; telegraph office, at the station. Acreage, 6599 ; population, 1225. The manor belonged at the Conquest to the Earl of Ewe, and passed through the Leybournes and others to the Oxendens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, Merton College, Oxford, under nomination by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early and Later English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed., school. There are large brick works.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
