Yalding, Kent

Description
Yalding, a village and a parish in Kent The village stands near the confluence of the rivers Medway, Beult, and Theyse, with a station on the S.E.R., 38 miles from London, and 5 1/2 SW of Maidstone. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidstone. It was once a market-town, was desolated by the plague in 1510, 1603,1609, and 1666; is subject to inundation in wet seasons by the rivers, and enjoys advantages of navigation by barges on the Medway. The parish includes Collier Street hamlet. Acreage, 6358; population of the civil parish, 2595; of the ecclesiastical, 2407. Court Lodge, Down House, and Kenward are chief residences. Hops and fruit are largely grown. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £1168 with residence. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good. The vicarage of St Margaret, with a church at Collier Street, is a separate benefice of the gross value of £300 with residence. The church was restored in 1884. There are a Baptist chapel and an endowed grammar school.