Description
Hastingleigh, a parish in Kent, 4 miles ESE of Wye station on the S.E.R., and NE by E of Ashford. It has a post office under Ashford; money order and telegraph office, Wye. Acreage, 1553; population of the civil parish, 198; of the ecclesiastical, 562. About 13 acres are under hops. The living is a rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Elmstead, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £390 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is very ancient but good, and consists of a nave and aisle and a chancel, with a tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
