Monkton, Kent

Description
Monkton, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1 1/2 mile N of the river Stour, 2 WNW of Minster station on the S.E.R., and 6 1/2 miles W of Ramsgate; was once a market-town, is a scattered place, and has a post office under Ramsgate; money order and telegraph office, Minster. Acreage of parish, 2370; population, 413. The parish council consists of five members. The manor was given in 916 by Queen Ediva to Christ Church, Canterbury, " to feed the monks." A fishery and a saltern were here at Domesday. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £256 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is ancient but good, with a tower; includes fragments of all architectural periods; appears, from exterior arches in the N wall, to have once been larger than now; and contains a very fine brass of a priest of 1450.