Ewell, Kent
Historical Description
Ewell, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands in a vale a quarter of a mile from Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and near the source of the river Dour, 3 miles NW of Dover. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dover. Acreage, 1602; population, 566. The manor belonged as early as 1185 to the Knights Templars, and it had a commandery of theirs on an eminence about a mile from the village. Portions of the building remained till near the middle of the 18th century, and they occasioned both the village and the parish to be sometimes called Temple Ewell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £137 with residence, and 54 acres of glebe. The church is small, but 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 | Ewell St. Mary and St. Peter | |
Hundred | Bewsborough | |
Lathe | St. Augustine | |
Poor Law union | Dover |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Ewell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ewell (St. Mary and St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Ewell 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.