LUDDESDOWN, a parish in North Aylesford district, Kent; 1½ mile SE of Sole-Street r. station, and 5½ WSW of Rochester. It contains the hamlets of Poundgate and Henley-Street; and its Post town is Gravesend. Acres, 1,983. Real property, £2,187. Pop., 279. Houses, 54. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged formerly to the Montacutes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £400.* Patron, J. A. Wigan, Esq. The church was mainly rebuilt, partly repaired, in 1866; is partly in the early English style, partly later English; and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower. There are a free school and 4 acres of church land.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))