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Eastry, Kent

Historical Description

Eastry, a village, a parish, and a hundred in Kent. The village stands 2½ miles SW by S of Sandwich station on the S.E.R., was once a market town belonging to Canterbury priory, was previously a seat of the Saxon kings, who had a palace at it, and has now a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dover, a fair on 2 Oct., a church, a Wesleyan chapel, a workhouse, a cottage hospital, and some large charities. The church is chiefly Early English, but has Norman portions, -and contains monuments of the Botelers, the Paramors, the Harveys, and the Bargraves; it was restored in 1860. The parish contains also Heronden, Selson, Gower, Statenborough, -znd Felderland. Acreage, 2733; population, 1343. Court Lodge belonged to the Bargraves, and was the hiding-place of Becket for some days before his flight to France. Some ancient remains are at Statenborougli; and a remarkable excavation, winding to a great depth through a chalk strata, is in the vicinity of Eastry village. The living is a vicarage in .the diocese of Canterbury; value, £198 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyKent 
Ecclesiastical parishEastry St. Mary 
HundredDownhamford 
LatheSt. Augustine 
Poor Law unionEastry 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Eastry, St Mary the Virgin: baptisms 1559-1912, marriages 1559-1928, burials 1559-1853


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Eastry from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Eastry are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.

DistrictDover
CountyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtCT13
Post TownSandwich

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