HARDRES (UPPER), a parish in the hundred of
BRIDGE-AND-PETHAM, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county
of KENT, 4 miles (S.) from Canterbury, containing 243
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the perpetual
curacy of Stelling, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £19. 13. 1.,
and in the patronage of the Heirs of Lady Hardres.
The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is principally
in the early style of English architecture. The
ancient Stane street passes through the parish. Elizabeth
Denward, in 1785, gave a dwelling house and two
school-rooms, with lands and certain stock in the Navy
five per cents., towards the support of a master and a
mistress, who teach twenty boys and twelve girls upon
the National system.