Newchurch, Kent

Historical Description

Newchurch, a parish in Kent, 2 miles S of the Military Canal, 3½ ESE of Ham Street station on the S.E.R., and 4½ N by W of New Romney. It has a post office under Folkestone; money order and telegraph office, Dymchurch. Acreage, 3180; population, 355. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early English, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with an embattled tower, and has very beautiful pillars within the aisles.

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.

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 Newchurch from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newchurch, (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Newchurch 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.