Description
Stourmouth, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the river Stour at the influx of the Lesser Stour, 1 1/2 mile E by S of Grove Ferry station on the S.E.R., and 5 miles NW of Sandwich. It has a post office under Dover; money order office, Wingham; telegraph office, Grove Ferry railway station. Acreage, 901; population, 330. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is ancient.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
