Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Milton next Sittingbourne

Milton next Sittingbourne, town and par., Kent, on creek of river Swale, on NW. side of Sittingbourne, 2558 ac., pop. 4219; has long been celebrated for its oysters, great quantities of which are sent to the London market; the church succeeded an earlier Saxon building.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town and parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Milton CP/AP       Kent AncC
Place: Milton Regis

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