Newenden, Kent

Description
Newenden, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Rother at the boundary with Sussex, 5 1/2 miles SW by S of Tenterden, 6 of Hawkhurst station, and 9 NW by W of Eye station on the S.E.R. It was once a considerable shipping place, and has a three-arched bridge over the Rother, a fair on 21 June, and a post and money order office under Rye ; telegraph office, Northiam. Acreage of parish, 1046 ; population, 149. A Carmelite priory stood at Lossenham, founded in 1241, about half a mile E of the village; contests with a friary at Aylesford the claim of having been the earliest Carmelite establishment in England ; is thought by Camden to have been founded on the site of the Roman Anderida; and has left no remains. A spot called Castle Toll, at some distance from Lossenham, exhibits traces of large and deep entrenchments, enclosing a lofty mound, has furnished many Roman relics, and used also to be regarded by some antiquaries as the site of Anderida. That ancient city, however, is now identified by the best antiquaries with Pevensey. The living of Newenden is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is ancient, bears marks of being only a portion of originally a much larger structure (the ruins of the chancel were taken down in 1701), and contains a good Perpendicular screen and a very curious square carved font, either Saxon or Early Norman. There is an endowed school.