Description
Luddesdown, a parish in Kent, 1 1/2 mile SE of Sole Street station on the L.C. & D.R., and 5 1/2 miles WSW of Rochester. It contains the hamlets of Poundgate and Henley Street. Post town, Gravesend; money order and telegraph office, Cobham. Acreage, 1995; population, 320. The manor belonged formerly to the Montacutes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £70 with residence. The church was mainly rebuilt, partly repaired, in 1866, is partly in the Early English style, partly Later English, and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower. Two large and very striking frescoes were put in the N chancel wall in 1894.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
