Oare or Ower, Kent
Historical Description
Oare or Ower, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on a creek of the Swale, 1½ mile N by W of Faversham station on the L. C. & D. R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Faversham. Acreage of parish, 647; population, 511. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. There are some oyster beds. Earl Sondes is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £80 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early English, of flint and stone; consists of nave and chancel, with wooden tower, and contains a very old square granite font. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Oare St. Peter | |
Hundred | Faversham | |
Lathe | Scray | |
Poor Law union | Faversham |
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 Oare or Ower from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Oare (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Oare or Ower 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.