Description
Iwade, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 3 miles N of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.B. The parish extends from Stangate Creek to the Swale Strait; consists mainly of embanked marsh, and has a quay at Fun-ton, on Stangate Creek. Post town, Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Milton. Acreage, 3221 of land and 209 of water and foreshore; population, 251. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury The church is small and ancient, in the Perpendicular style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
