Brookland, a parish in Kent, with a station on the S.E.R., 68 miles from London. It has a post office under New Romney (S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1892 ; population of the civil parish, 395 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Fairfield, 465. The living is a vicarage, with Fairfield, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is Early English, and has a leaden-figured Norman font, and the bell-tower stands detached, and is constructed of timber. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
