NURSTED, a parish in North Aylesford district, Kent; ½ a mile N of Meopham r. station, and 4 S by W of Gravesend. Post-town, Meopham, under Gravesend. Acres, 510. Real property, £1, 420. Pop., 57. Houses, 9. Nursted Court belongs to the Edmeades family; is a modernized ancient structure; and was originally a finespecimen of the domestic architecture of the early part of the 14th century. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £230. Patron, the Rev. W. H. Edmeades. The church consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower; and is good.

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