CHALK, a parish in North Aylesford district, Kent; on the river Thames and the North Kent railway, 2½ miles SE by E of Gravesend. It has a post office under Gravesend, and a fair on Whit-Monday. Acres, 2,246; of which 305 are water. Real property, with Denton, £5,177. Pop., 382. Houses, 74. The property is divided among a few. The surface is variously marshy and chalky. Gun flints of prime quality were formerly manufactured; and much fruit is sent to the London market. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £200. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is of flint, very ancient and good; has two grotesque figures on the porch; and contains curious monuments and sedilia.

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