Crundale or Crundell, Kent
Historical Description
Crundale or Crundell, a parish in Kent, near the river Stour, 2½ miles NE of Wye station on the S.E.R., and 6½ NE by N of Ashford. It has a post office under Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Wye. Acreage, 1593; population, 257. Roman urns and other Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £305 with residence. The church is good.
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 | Crundale St. Mary | |
Hundred | Wye | |
Lathe | Shepway | |
Poor Law union | East Ashford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1556; marriages, 1559; burials, 1554.
Findmypast have the following online for Crundale, St Mary the Virgin: baptisms 1556-1915, marriages 1559-1926, burials 1554-1841
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is of flint in the Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, and has a tower with spire containing 3 bells: the church was restored in 1894, at a cost of £1,300, and affords 130 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 Crundale or Crundell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Crundale (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Crundale or Crundell 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.