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Boxley in Kent County England History and GeographyBOXLEY, a parish in the hundred of MAIDSTONE, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 2¼ miles (N.E. by N.) from Maidstone, containing 1166 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £12. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the King, and the Dean and Chapter of Rochester alternately. The church is dedicated to All Saints. This parish is noted for the manufacture of paper of a superior quality; two of the mills, called the old Turkey mills, are remarkable for the extent of the buildings, the machinery, and the excellence and regularity of the arrangements: prior to the decay of the clothing trade they were used as fulling-mills, but in 1739 were purchased by Mr. James Whatman, and have ever since been appropriated to their present purpose. An abbey for Cistercian monks was founded in 1146, by William d' Ipres, Earl of Kent, who subsequently assumed the cowl at Laon, in France. Henry III. granted to the society the privilege of holding a weekly market; and the abbot was summoned to parliament in the reign of Edward I. Edward II. resided here during the siege of Leeds castle, at which time he signed a charter for the citizens of London. At the dissolution, the revenue was estimated at £218. 19. 10.; and the site, with a portion of the estates, was granted to Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet. The abbey contained a celebrated rood, which, together with the image of St. Rumbald, was taken away, and publicly destroyed at St. Paul's cross, in 1538: there are still some remains of the buildings. An extensive rabbit-warren, part of the possessions of the abbey, lies beneath the chalk-hill; and there was another near Penenden heath, (about half of which is in this parish,) but it has been brought into cultivation. A small stream, which rises just below the church, runs through the village, and is stated to petrify wood with an incrustation resembling brown and unpolished marble. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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