Upchurch, Kent

Description
Upchurch, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the creeks of the Medway, 2 miles from Rainham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 5 E of Chatham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sittingbourne. Acreage, 3287; population, 1218. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The parish is among the best of fruit and hop land in Kent. Low islets and peninsulas engirt by creeks form part of the surface, bear the name of salterns or soltings, appear to have been the site of an extensive Roman pottery manufacture, and have yielded many pieces of Roman pottery and many Roman coins. There are also extensive gravel pits abounding with fossils. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £265. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church is chiefly Decorated English, and has a spire which serves as a landmark.