Description
Chart-next-Sutton-Valence or Chart-Sutton, a parish in Kent, on the verge of the Weald, 4 1/4 miles from Staple-hurst on the S.E.R., and 6 from Maidstone. It has a post office under Staplehurst; money order and telegraph office, Sutton-Valence. Acreage, 2188; population, 673. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £175 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St Michael, was partially destroyed by lightning in 1779 and lost its spire, but has been rebuilt. It has no chancel. The burial ground contains the remains of a former Lord Mayor of London, Robert Peckham, of Maidstone, interred in 1814.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
