Description
Hawkinge, a parish in Kent, near the coast, 2 miles N of Folkestone station on the S.E.R., with a post and money order office under Folkestone; telegraph office, Folkestone. It includes the hamlet of Uphill. Acreage, 2352; population, 431. The living is a rectory, annexed to Swingfield, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1875, includes parts which probably are Norman, and has a small bell-turret. There is a Union chapel in the parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
