Description
Grange, an extra-parochial township in Kent, on the river Medway, 1 mile E of the New Brompton station on the L.C. & D.R., and 2 1/2 miles ENE of Chatham. It is a member of the cinque port of Hastings, and it belonged to the Hastings, Philipott, and Bamines families. Acreage, 256; population, 179. A small chapel in Perpendicular architecture was built here by Sir John Philipott in the time of Richard II., and is now in ruins.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
