Description
Halstow, High, a parish in Kent, 5 1/2 miles N by E of Rochester. There is a station in the parish at Sharnal Street on the Hundred Hoo branch of the S.E.R. Post town, Rochester; money order office, Hoo; telegraph office, Shamel Street station. Acreage, 3212; population, 344. Northwood Hill commands an extensive view of the shore of the Thames. Part of the land is marsh, with reed beds, and the Mean is a tract of 262 acres indefinitely divided between this parish and Hoo St Mary. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £400 with residence. The church has a brass of 1396, and is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
