Ebony, Kent

Ebony
Ebony is located in Kent
Ebony
Ebony
Location within Kent
OS grid referenceTQ939278
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTENTERDEN
Postcode districtTN30
Dialling code01233
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
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51°01′00″N 0°45′55″E / 51.0167°N 0.7654°E / 51.0167; 0.7654

Ebony is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony, in the Ashford district, in the county of Kent, England. It is on the Isle of Oxney, south of Ashford. EBONY (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Tenterden, partly in the hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of the lathe of Scray, W. division, but chiefly in the hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E. division, of Kent, 4 miles (S. E.) from Tenterden. [1]

The place-name 'Ebony' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 833, where it appears as Ebbanea. The name means 'Ebba's or Ybba's stream'.[1]

In 1891 the parish had a population of 174.[2] In 1894 the parish was abolished and merged with Stone to form "Stone cum Ebony", part also went to Tenterden.[3]

  1. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.159.
  2. ^ "Population statistics Ebony CP/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Tenterden Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 11 June 2024.