Capel le Ferne, Kent
Historical Description
Capel-le-Ferne, a parish in Kent, on the coast, and on the Dover and Folkestone railway, 3 miles NE of Folkestone, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Folkestone. Acreage, 1582; population of the civil parish, 232; of the ecclesiastical, 825. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Alkham, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £350, and a vicarial residence at Alkham. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a western tower, shows interesting internal features of Early English, and contains a piscina, a sedilia, and a brass of 1526.
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 | Capel-Le-Ferne St. Mary | |
Hundred | Folkestone | |
Lathe | Shepway | |
Poor Law union | Dover |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1592.
Findmypast have the following online for Capel le Ferne, St Mary: baptisms 1708-1912, marriages 1708-1838, burials 1708-1959
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is of flint, in the Early English style, with Decorated and Perpendicular windows, and has a tower containing 2 bells: there are 103 sittings.
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 Capel le Ferne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Capel-Le-Ferne (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Capel le Ferne 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.