Description
Seal, a village and a parish in Kent The village stands 2 miles E of Sevenoaks station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sevenoaks. The parish contains also the hamlets of Under River and Godden Green, and comprises 4445 acres; population of the civil parish, 1782; of the ecclesiastical, 1580. Wilderness Park is the seat of Lord Hillingdon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, Lord Sackville. The church ranges from Early English to Perpendicular, and contains some handsome monuments of the Camden family. There are a Bible Christian chapel and a convalescent home.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
