STURRY, a parish and a sub-district in Blean district, Kent. The parish lies on the river Stour, and on the Ashford and Ramsgate rallway, 2½ miles NE of Canterbury; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Canterbury. Acres, 3,089. Real property, £5,284. Pop., 1,044. Houses, 240. The property is subdivided. The manor was given by Ethelbert to St. Augustine's abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £255.* Patron, the Archbishop. The church is partly Norman, chiefly later English, and all good. There are a national school, and charities £40.—The sub-district contains 6 parishes, 2 villes, and 2 Canterbury precincts. Pop., 6,467. Houses, 1,381.

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