Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent
Historical Description
Chiddingstone Causeway, a locality in Chiddingstone parish, Kent, about a mile from Chiddingstone village, and near Penshurst station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Edenbridge.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1899.
Churches
Church of England
St. Luke (parish church)
The church of St. Luke, erected in 1898 as a memorial to the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark Hills and their sons, Frank Ernest and Henry, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, from designs by the late Mr. Bentley, architect, and has a tower; it affords sittings for 200 persons.
Maps
Online maps of Chiddingstone Causeway 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
Parochial History
St. Luke, Chiddingstone Causeway, is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1906, from Chiddingstone, Leigh, and Penshurst parishes.
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.