Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mottenden

Mottenden, hamlet, Headcorn par., Kent, 11 miles NW. of Ashford; here stood a Trinitarian priory of 1224, the first of its kind in England.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Headcorn Parish       Kent Ancient County
Place: Mottenden

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