Description
Farleigh, West, a parish in Kent, on the river Medway,. U mile WSW of East Farleigh station on the S.E.R., and 3 1/2 miles SW of Maidstone. It has a post and telegraph office under Maidstone; money order office, East Farleigh. Acreage,, 1107; population, 438. West Farleigh Hall is the seat of Sir William Fitzherbert, Bart. Much of the land is occupied in fine hop grounds and fruit gardens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £292 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Eochester. The church is Early Norman, and. contains monuments of the Toteshams, the Lawrences, and others. The churchyard has some remarkably fine yew trees.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
