Chislet

Chislet
St Mary the Virgin Church, Chislet
Chislet is located in Kent
Chislet
Chislet
Location within Kent
Area18.25 km2 (7.05 sq mi)
Population872 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density48/km2 (120/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTR2264
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCANTERBURY
Postcode districtCT3
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
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Kent
51°20′02″N 1°11′29″E / 51.334°N 1.1913°E / 51.334; 1.1913

Chislet is an English village and civil parish in northeast Kent between Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet. The parish is the second largest in the district. A former spelling, 'Chistlet', is seen in 1418. The population of the civil parish includes the hamlet of Marshside. Most of the land use is fertile agricultural and a significant minority of the land is marsh where low-lying.[2][3]

Chislet has a Primary School, Chislet CofE School, which currently has 98 students aging from 4–11.

  1. ^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
  2. ^ British History website: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63543 ; village of Chistlet
  3. ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 629; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0084.htm; the defendant in the third entry comes from this place: Simon Littelwode, of Chistlet, husbandman