Description
Wootton, a parish in Kent, 2 1/2 miles WSW of Shepherds Well station on the L.C. & D.R., and 8 NW of Dover. It has a post office under Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Shepherds Well. Acreage, 1028; population, 181. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £120 with residence. The church is Early English, and has been well restored. Wootton Court is the chief residence, and a portion of it is supposed to have been built in the reign of King John.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
