UPPER or GREAT HARDRES. This parish adjoins Lower Hardres to the S.E. The Church
is small and ancient, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. The living is a
rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Stelling annexed, in the patronage and
incumbency of the Rev. E. Sandys Lumsdaine, M.A. The population, in 1851, was
303. Bassingham is a hamlet with 150 inhabitants, one mile south ; Palmsted is a
hamlet with 30 inhabitants, two miles S.E.; Wildage, two miles S.E.; Lincey, one
mile S.E.; Bursted, one mile S.E.; Pheasant's Hall, one mile and a half east;
Langham Park, one mile and a half east, Woodsgate, half a mile east. Brixall is
in this parish.
POST-OFFICE - John Wood, Receiver. Bassingham letters through Canterbury. The
nearest Money Order Office is at Canterbury.