Description
Sheldwich, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 3 miles from Faversham, and 3 from Selling station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post office on Sheldwich Lees, under Faversham; money order and telegraph office, Faversham. Acreage, 1948; population, 648. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Lees Court, belongs to Earl Sondes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £210 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is Later English with some Norman remains, and was enlarged and restored in 1888. At Perry Wood is a small mission room.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
