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Yalding in Kent County England History and GeographyYALDING, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of TWYFORD, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 5 miles (S.W.) from Maidstone, containing 2414 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at £20. 18. 9., and in the patronage of the Rev. Richard Ward. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is principally in the decorated style of English architecture. The parish is intersected by different branches of the Medway, and upon two of the larger streams stands the village, approached by a long narrow stone bridge, besides which, there are two others in the parish, called Brant and Twyford bridges. The river is navigable to this place for barges, by which a considerable traffic in timber and other naval stores is carried on with Chatham, Sheerness, London, and other ports; the vessels returning with a variety of necessary articles, particularly coal, from which a considerable quantity of coke is made, and distributed through the neighbourhood for drying hops. The market has been long disused; but fairs for cattle and hops are held on Whit-Monday and October 15th. William Cleave, Esq., in 1665, founded a free school, and endowed it with a farm now let for £50 a year, which, with the previous bequests of Julian Kenward and Thomas and John Twiffer, amounting to the additional sum of £17 per annum, is applied to teaching from thirty to forty children. A charity school, founded in 1711, for girls and young children, has been endowed by Mrs. Alchorn and Mrs. Warde, sisters, with a school-house, besides certain lands and other premises, the rents of which are paid half-yearly to a schoolmistress for teaching from twenty to twenty-four children, under the superintendence of the vicar. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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