Wilmington, Kent

Description
Wilmington, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 1 mile from Dartford station on the S.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Dartford; telegraph office, Hextable. Acreage, 1716; population, 1722. The manor belonged to Warwick the Kingmaker, and to Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury. Much of the land is disposed in gardens and cherry orchards. The Masonic Hall and buildings were erected in 1883 by the Lullingstone Lodge of Freemasons, at a cost of over £1600. There is a retreat for aged governesses, consisting of five cottages. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net; value, £185 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church stands on a hill, and is a handsome building of Kentish rag in the Perpendicular style, was enlarged in 1881, and again in 1883, and contains several handsome memorial windows. The antiquary Denne was vicar.