Dodington, Kent
Historical Description
Dodington, a parish in Kent, 3½ miles S of Teynham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 5½ SE of Sittingbourne. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sittingbourne. Acreage, 1945; population, 553. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £225 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is chiefly Norman, but has a Transition Norman chancel and an Early English south chancel, and is in good condition. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Doddington St. John the Baptist | |
| Hundred | Teynham | |
| Lathe | Scray | |
| Poor Law union | Faversham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1589.
Findmypast have the following online for Doddington, St John the Baptist: baptisms 1589-1912, marriages 1589-1928, burials 1589-1905
Churches
Church of England
St. John the Baptist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Baptist is of flint, in the Early English and Decorated styles, and has a tower containing 2 bells: the south chapel, probably erected about 1280, is a good example of the Early English period, and has a double lancet east window: here also is a slab with an incised cross and inscription in Lombardic characters; the pulpit is Jacobean; on the north side of the chancel is a recess with aumbry and a stone desk, above which is a niche in which are traces of a carved crucifix and a low side window: in 1873-4 the chancel was re-paved and furnished with new stalls, and in 1907-8 the church was thoroughly restored: the church contains 250 sittings. The churchyard was enlarged in 1907 with land given by Brig.-Gen. P. D. Jeffreys C.B.
Methodist
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
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 Dodington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Doddington (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Dodington 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.