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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Womenswold like this:
WOMENSWOULD, a parish in Bridge district, Kent; 2½ miles S of Adisham r. station, and 7 SE of Canterbury. Post town, Canterbury. Acres, 1,010. Real property, £1,267. Pop., 276. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is good.
Womenswold is now part of CANTERBURY District. Click here for graphs and data of how CANTERBURY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Womenswold itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Womenswold, in Canterbury and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6490
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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