MILSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of MILTON,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 3 miles (S. by W.)
from Sittingbourne, containing 191 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at
£8. 15. Sarah T. Patterson was patroness in 1819.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary and the Holy Cross,
is in the early style of English architecture. There are
almshouses for five poor persons. John Wyatt, in 1722,
gave land now let for £ 20 a year, for the education of
eight poor children of this parish, and the same number
of that of Frinsted.