Leysdown, Kent
Historical Description
Leysdown, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the NE side of Sheppey Isle, 9 miles from Sheemess station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Sheemess; money order and telegraph office, Eastchurch. Acreage of the parish, 2179; population, 218. There are two coastguard stations. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Harty, in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £265 with residence. The present church was built in 1874 on the site of the old Norman building which fell in in 1734.
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 | Leysdown St. Clement | |
Lathe | Scray | |
Liberty | Isle of Sheppey | |
Poor Law union | Isle of Sheppey |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Leysdown from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Leysdown (St. Clement))
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.