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Little Chart, Kent

Historical Description

Chart, Little, a parish in Kent, 2 miles SW of Charing station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Ashford; money order and telegraph office, Pluckley. Acreage, 1607; population, 313. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; the commuted tithe rent charge is £398 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is old, and has a tower with a peal of five bells. It was well restored in 1877. There is a Roman Catholic chapel in the mansion of Cale Hill.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyKent 
Ecclesiastical parishLittle Chart St. Mary 
HundredCalehill 
LatheShepway 
Poor Law unionWest Ashford 

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


Church Records

The parish register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1569; marriages from 1562.


Churches

Church of England

St. Mary (parish church)

The church of St. Mary is an ancient stone building in the Perpendicular style, and has a tower containing 5 bells: the east window and others are memorials to the Cheesman family: in the aisle is the effigy of a knight in armour, and brasses and monuments to the Darell family: the church was restored in 1876-7, at a cost of £1,200, and affords 150 sittings.

Roman Catholic

St. Francis Xavier and St. Joseph, Calehill

Attached to Calehill, the ancient mansion of the Darell family, is a Catholic chapel dedicated to St. Francis Xavier and St. Joseph; it was served by the Catholic priest of Ashford.


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 Little Chart from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Little Chart are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.

DistrictAshford
CountyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtTN27
Post TownAshford

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