Description
Graveney, a parish in Kent, with a station on the L.C. & D.R., 50 miles from London, and 3 ENE of Fav-ersham. It has a post office under Faversham; money order and telegraph office, Faversham. Acreage, 2229; population, 266. The manor belonged from 811 to the Archbishops of Canterbury, and figured at Domesday as theirs. The living is a vicarage, united to the rectory of Good-nestone, in the diocese of Canterbury; joint value, o£290 with residence. The church is Early English, with interesting features, and has a Decorated English altar-tomb and a very fine brass of 1436.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
