Description
Waltham, a parish, with Waltham village and Handville Green hamlet, in Kent, 4 miles from Chilham station on the S.E.R., and 7 SSW of Canterbury. It has a post office under Canterbury; money order office, Petham; telegraph office, Wye. Acreage, 3235; population of the civil parish, 452; of the ecclesiastical, 1083. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage, united with Petham, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £580 with residence in Pelham. The church is Early English and good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
