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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rodmersham like this:
RODMERSHAM, a parish, with a village, in Milton district, Kent; 1¾ mile S E of Sittingbourne r. station. Post-town, Sittingbourne. Acres, 1, 231. Real property, £2, 746. Pop., 294. Houses, 56. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Dr. P. Panton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £115. Patron, Dr. P. Panton. The church is early English, in good condition; and contains three curiousantique wooden seats, overhung by a canopy, and supposed to have been formed for knights of St. John. There is a Bible Christians' chapel.
Rodmersham is now part of SWALE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SWALE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Rodmersham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rodmersham, in Swale and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6331
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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