Description
Ulcombe, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 3 miles from Harrietsham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 6 NE of Staplehurst. It has a post office under Staplehurst; money order and telegraph office, Sutton Valence. Acreage, 3520; population, 591. The manor, with Ulcombe Place, belongs to the Marquis of Ormonde. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £380 with residence. The church is Early and Decorated English, includes a chapel founded by the St Leger family, was once collegiate, and was restored in 1870, when some frescoes of the 14th century were discovered on the S arcade of the nave.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
