Description
Ryarsh, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1 1/2 mile from West Mailing station on the L.C. & D.R., and 6 1/2 miles NW by W of Maidstone. It has a post office under Maidstone; money order and telegraph office, West Malling. The parish includes also part of Aldon hamlet, and comprises 1375 acres; population of the civil parish, 518; of the ecclesiastical, 555. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £300 with residence. The church is partly Norman, but mainly Later English.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
