Description
Seasalter, a parish in Kent, on the coast, 1 mile from Whitstable station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Whitstable. Acreage, 1487; population, 1397. It contains part of Whitstable; was a borough at Domesday called Le-saltre, and possessed eight fisheries; it has now no village, and is a liberty. Oyster fishing is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The old church is now used only for burials. The new church stands in Whit-stable, and was built in 1845.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
