Description
Tilmanstone, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 5 miles W by S of Deal, and 4 from Shepherds Well station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Eythorne. Acreage, 1149; population, 365. The manor has belonged since the Saxon times to the Archbishops of Canterbury. Dane Court is the seat of the Eice family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, n£220 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is good, and was restored in 1884. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
