Chart Sutton, Kent
Historical Description
Chart-next-Sutton-Valence or Chart-Sutton, a parish in Kent, on the verge of the Weald, 4¼ miles from Staplehurst on the S.E.R., and 6 from Maidstone. It has a post office under Staplehurst; money order and telegraph office, Sutton-Valence. Acreage, 2188; population, 673. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £175 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church, dedicated to St Michael, was partially destroyed by lightning in 1779 and lost its spire, but has been rebuilt. It has no chancel. The burial ground contains the remains of a former Lord Mayor of London, Robert Peckham, of Maidstone, interred in 1814.
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 | Sutton Chart St. Michael | |
Hundred | Eyhorne | |
Lathe | Aylesford | |
Poor Law union | Hollingbourn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1558.
Findmypast have the following online for Chart Sutton, St Michael: baptisms 1558-1919, marriages 1558-1937, burials 1558-1922
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael was partially destroyed when struck by lightning 3 April, 1778, and lost its spire; it was rebuilt without a chancel, is of stone, in the Late Decorated style, and has a tower containing a clock and 6 bells; it was re-pewed in 1868, and in 1896 to 1898 underwent extensive alterations at a cost of about £2,000, and affords 270 sittings. In the churchyard are interred the remains of Robert Peckham, of Maidstone, a former Lord Mayor of London.
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 Chart Sutton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chart, Sutton (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Chart Sutton 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.