Northbourne, Kent

Description
Northbourne, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 3 miles W by S of Deal, and 2 1/2 from Walmer station on the Deal and Dover Joint railway; takes its name from a brook or burn which runs to the Stour at Sandwich; and has a post office under Deal; money order and telegraph office, Deal. The parish contains also the hamlets of Finglesham, Ashley, Little Betshanger, Marley, and West Street, and includes the detached tract of Tickenhurst. Acreage, 3659 ; population, 892. The manor was given in 618 by King Eadbald to the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury; went after the dissolution to the Crown, and belongs now to Lord Northbourne. Northbourne Court was a residence of the monks; is supposed to occupy the site of a palace of King Eadbald; was for some time in the possession of the Sandys family; had then famous hanging gardens, parts of which are still preserved. The site is now occupied by a small mansion. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury ; value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Norman, Transition, and Early English-large, cruciform, and interesting; has a massive central tower, and contains a triangular-headed piscina and a splendid monument of 1629 to Sir Edwin Sandys.