Kenardington, Kent

Description
Kenardington, a parish, with a village, in Kent, near the Royal Military Canal, 1 1/2 mile SW of Ham Street station on the S.E.R., and 7 miles SSW of Ashford. Post town, Ham Street, under Asbford. Acreage, 2149; population, 194. Much of the land is occupied with coppice, called Silcox Wood. An ancient earthwork is on elevated ground near the village, is connected by a narrow causeway with another ancient earthwork in the marsh below, and these works are supposed by some to have been formed by the ancient British-by others to have been formed about 893 during the wars between Alfred and the Danes. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £190 with residence. The church comprises aisle and chancel, with a bell-turret, and succeeded one which was destroyed by lightning in 1559.