Selling, Kent
Historical Description
Selling, a village and a parish in Kent. The village has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 56 miles from London, and 3A SE by S of Faversham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Faversham. Acreage, 2454; population, 796. There is a parish council of seven members. Selling Court, Woodlands, Luton House, Sole Street House, and the Vicarage are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, Earl Sondes. The church is Early English with later work.
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 | Selling St. Mary | |
Hundred | Boughton-under-Blean | |
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 Selling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Selling (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Selling 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.