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Chiselhurst in Kent County England History and GeographyCHISELHURST, a parish in the hundred of RUXLEY, lathe of SUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 11 miles (S.E.) from London, containing, with a portion of the hamlet of Mottingham, which extends into this parish, 1586 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £16. 3. 6½., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is built of flint, with a shingled spire. A school is endowed with £15 per annum and a house for the master, for teaching six boys; but fifty are educated on this foundation on the National system. There are two schools for girls, one affording clothing and instruction to six, and the other to twelve, supported by various bequests and donations producing £24 per annum, besides subscriptions. Children of this parish are also admitted into the National school established at Foot's Cray. In 1680, Thomas Philpott made a bequest for building six almshouses at Eltham, two of them to be inhabited by poor persons of this parish. Sir Nicholas Bacon was a native of Chiselhurst: here also was born, in 1500, Sir Francis Walsingham, secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth; and at this place, in 1623, died Camden, the celebrated antiquary, from whom Camden Place, in this parish, (whence Lord Chancellor Pratt took the title of baron, and which now confers the title of marquis on his descendant), derives its name. Viscount Sydney enjoys the title of Baron Sydney of Chiselhurst, which was conferred in 1783. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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