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Cliffe in Kent County England History and GeographyCLIFFE, a parish in the hundred of SHAMWELL, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Rochester, containing 673 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the incumbent, rated in the king's books at £50, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. Hclen, is considered to be the finest in the county, being a large handsome cruciform structure in the early style of English architecture, with an embattled central tower, and containing several curious monuments and remains of antiquity, together with six stalls that belonged to a dean and five prebendaries, it having been formerly collegiate. The parish is bounded on the north by the Thames: the village, which is supposed to take name from the cliff or rock on which it stands, at present consists of West-street and Church-street, but was formerly of much greater compass, a great part of it having been destroyed by fire in 1520. It was anciently the scene of several provincial councils: a fair is held on the 28th of September. The school-house, which has been recently put into a state of complete repair, was founded in 1679, by John Browne, who bequeathed two tenements and other appurtenances, for educating twelve poor children, directing his executors and the church wardens to appoint a poor man and woman, being capable, as teachers, and to choose the scholars. One of the cottages is occupied by the schoolmistress, who receives £10 per annum for teaching eight poor children. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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