Description
Wouldham, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the river Medway, 1 1/2 mile from Hailing station on the S.E.R., and 3 miles SSW of Rochester, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rochester. Acreage, 1540; population, 1373. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £200. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman, but chiefly Late Perpendicular. A jubilee hall was erected in 1887.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
