Description
Burmarsh, a parish in Kent, on the coast, adjacent to the Military Canal, 3 miles SSW of Westerhanger station on the S.E.R., and 4 SW by W of Hythe. Post town, Folkestone ; money order and telegraph office, Dymchurch. In 1888 a part of the parish of West Hythe was annexed to this parish. Acreage, 2176 ; population of the civil parish, 243; population of the ecclesiastical parish, 139. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church has been restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
