Description
Sturry, a parish in Kent, on the river Stour, with a station on the S.E.R., 73 miles from London, and 2 1/2 NE of Canterbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Canterbury. Acreage, 3151; population, 1204. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor was given by Ethelbert to St Augustine's Abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is partly Norman, chiefly Later English, and all good. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Lord Greville is lord of the manor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
