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[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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"MILKHOUSE-STREET, a hamlet in the parish and hundred of Cranbrook, lathe of Scray, county Kent, 1½ mile N.E. of Cranbrook, its post town, and 4 miles S. of Staplehurst railway station. It is now formed into an ecclesiastical district. In the village the manufacture of hop-bagging is carried on. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Canterbury, value £120. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a stone structure with a tower. The church is endowed with £1,000 invested in government securities. The old castle of Sissinghurst, formerly the seat of Sir Richard Baker, author of the "English Chronicle," is now in ruins."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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