Description
Tonge, a parish in Kent, 1 mile from Teynham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 2 miles from Sittingbourne. Post town, Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Bapchild. Acreage, 1636; population, 303. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Tonge Castle dates from the earliest Saxon times; was the scene of a massacre of the ancient Britons by the Saxons; belonged in the time of Richard II. to Mortimer, Earl of March, and is now represented by a high moated mound. Chekes Court is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £165 with residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
