Speldhurst, Kent

Description
Speldhurst, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 3 miles WNW of Tunbridge Wells stations on the L.B. & S.C.R. and S.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge Wells. The parish includes Langton and Lower Green hamlets, Rusthall manor, and part of Tunbridge Wells town. Acreage, 3990; population of the civil parish, 5591; of the ecclesiastical, 1323. There is a parish council of eleven members for that part of the parish not included in the borough of Tunbridge Wells. There are several mansions and neat villas. The living is a rectory, with Groombridge annexed, in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £200 with residence. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1871, and is a stone edifice in the Early English style.