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.

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 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

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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

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Visitations Heraldic

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