Description
Staple, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 2 miles ESE of Wingham, and 4 NE of Adisham station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Wingham. Acreage, 1009; population, 547. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. There are market-gardens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £600. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has been restored. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
