| Teston |
| Teston is vulgarly called Teeson. In the book of Domeday it is written TESTAN, and in the Textus Roffensis, TERSTANA. This parish is a borough, and has a court leet of itself; where the borsholder is chosen, and the inhabitants of it owe no service to the court leet holden for the hundred of Twyford; but a constable for that hundred may be chosen there out of this borough. TESTON is beautifully situated on the side of a hill, declining southward towards the river Medway, which is its southern boundary opposite to West Farleigh. The soil is in general a fertile loam, covering the quarry rock, which at the same time that it is dry and healthy, is exceeding kindly for corn, fruit and hop plantations. The high road from .Maidstone towards Watringbury and Tunbridge, leads along the lower part of this parish, between which and the river the neat kept grass lands, separated from the road by a handsome white railed fence, have a very, pleasing effect. Hence the road branches off, to the right to Ofham and Town Mailing, and to the left to Cocks heath, Yalding, and the Weald, across the river, over which there is here a lofty stone bridge of seven arches, which, notwithstanding its height, is frequently rendered impassable from the sudden overflowings of the river, which here at times frequently rises near eighteen feet above its usual surface, in the space of twenty-four hours, and as quickly falls again, unless it is again augmented by repeated rains. Teston park pales adjoin the northern side of the Maidstone road, hence the park rises to Teston-house, which being of white stucco, is a conspicuous object to the neighbouring country, and with the adjoining grounds, some years since, were greatly ornamented and laid out in the modern taste by Mrs. Bouverie; at the back of the house the ground keeps rising, and the park which is well covered with fine large trees, as well as modern plantations of various sorts, extends to the woods, which are remarkably well filled with large oak trees, and to East Malling heath, but in these parts it is more wet and deeper soil, and less fertile than the more southern parts of this parish extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1798 |
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| 1 | Deaths | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Burials | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1798 | The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume V by Edward Hasted ⇒ p. 126 |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1914 | Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson ⇒ p. 283 |
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 Teston Bridge and Halt - 1916 |  Teston Lock - 1919 | ||||||
| Places and properties in Teston - a directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period |
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