Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DAVINGTON

DAVINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Faversham district, Kent; adjacent to the Swale estuary and to the North Kent railway, ½ a mile N by W of Faversham. Post town, Faversham. Acres, 537. Real property, £2, 022. Pop., 149. Houses, 27. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in 1153, by Fulke de Newnham; became so poor as to be deserted; and has left considerable remains in a Norman arch, and in buildings of the times of Edward I. and Edward III. These remains are amassed with more recent structures in a mansion called the Priory, the seat of T. Willement, Esq. The village is thought to occupy the site of the Roman Durolevum; and has yielded many Roman relics, and recently a very curious mediæval "cap of fence, " formed of octagonal iron plates. The living is a donative in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £100. Patron, T. Willement, Esq. The church looks to be older than the nunnery; has five round-headed windows, which may be Saxon; and includes early English additions.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Davington CP/AP       Faversham RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Davington

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