Rainham, Kent

Description
Rainham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 39 miles from London, and 4 ESE of Chatham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sittingbourne. Acreage of parish, 3562; population, 3082. The parish council consists of eleven members. The manor belongs to Lord Hothfield. Berengrave Hall is the chief residence. Bricks and cement are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £420 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is partly of the 12th century; has a nave, N aisle, and two chancels; and contains a carved rood-screen, three-stone sedilia, and monuments of the Tuftons. The burial vaults of the Earls of Thanet are beneath the N chancel. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist chapels, and a public hall.