Halstead, Kent
Historical Description
Halstead, a village and a parish in Kent. The village has a station on the S.E.E., 15 miles from London, and 6 NNW of Sevenoaks. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under SevenoaRs. The parish comprises 923 acres; population, 448. Halstead Place is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was rebuilt in 1881. and is in the Early English style. A parish room and men's club was built by subscription in 1893.
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 | Halstead St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Codsheath | |
Lathe | Sutton-at-Hone | |
Poor Law union | Sevenoaks |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast have the following online for Halstead, St Margaret: baptisms 1561-1919, marriages 1563-1919, burials 1561-1922
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Halstead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Halstead (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Halstead 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.