Borden, Kent
Historical Description
Borden, a parish in Kent, 1½ mile W of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sittingbourne. Acreage, 2145; population, 1351. Many Roman coins, and foundations of two Roman buildings, were discovered at Sutton-Barn here in 1846. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £210 with residence. The church has a Norman west door and a Norman tower, and includes some Roman bricks in its walls. It was well restored in 1865. An endowed middle-class school has been established. The charities are large. There are Wesleyan and Methodist chapels. Dr Plot, the author of the county histories of Oxford and Stafford, was born at Sutton-Barn, and a mural monument to him is in the church.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Kent | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Borden St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Milton | |
Lathe | Scray | |
Poor Law union | Milton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1555.
Findmypast have the following online for Borden, SS Peter & Paul: baptisms 1556-1883, marriages 1556-1919, burials 1555-1919
Churches
Church of England
SS. Peter and Paul (parish church)
The church of SS. Peter and Paul is of flint, stone and brick, in the Norman, Early English and later styles, and has a fine Norman tower containing a clock, erected in 1898 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and 8 bells, rehung in 1885: a new vestry was erected in 1913 at a cost of about £300: there are several stained windows, stone screens and a monument to Robert Plot LL.D. the historian of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire, ob. 30 April, 1696, and a painting of St. Christopher on the north wall: the church affords 350 sittings, 270 being free.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Borden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Borden (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Borden are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.