Postling

Other current and historical names

Postinges
Pist

Parish/Community: Postling
District/Borough: Shepway
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°6'38"N 1°3'52"E
Eastings/Northings: 614613, 139081
OS Grid: TR146390
Mapcode Local: GBR V06.60J
Mapcode Global: VHLHD.DBPT

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Postling within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Postling in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Postling, par., Kent, 3 miles N. of Hythe, 1563 ac., pop. 139.

Postling in the Domesday Book

A village in Heane hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Esbiorn Bicga
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh de Montfort
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Roger (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £14 in 1086
- Households: 16 villagers; 7 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 7 men's ploughs (13 plough lands)
- Meadow: 40 acres
- Woodland: 40 swine render
- Churches: 2
- Mills: 2, value 6 shillings

British Place Names

Postling, Kent

Postling is a village in Kent

Postling in historic gazetteers

Postling in the Domesday Book