Hinxhill, Kent

Historical Description

Hinxhill, a parish in Kent, near the river Stour, 3 miles E by N of Ashford station on the L.C. & D.R. It was anciently called Hengestelle, contains the hamlet of Nackholt, and its post town is Ashford; money order and telegraph office, Willeshorongh. Acreage, 727; population of the civil parish, 111; of the ecclesiastical, 358. A subterranean fire broke out in 1767, lasted six weeks, and burned three acres of ground to a state of red ashes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value,, £100 with residence. The church is Early English, in good condition, comprises two aisles and two chancels, and contains a fine monument to E. Edolph, Esq.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Hinxhill, St Mary: baptisms 1577-1919, marriages 1577-1955, burials 1578-1981

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 Hinxhill from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hinxhill (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Hinxhill 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.