UK Genealogy Archives logo
DISCLOSURE: This page may contain affiliate links, meaning when you click the links and make a purchase, we may receive a commission.

Sibbertswold, Sherbertswould, or Shepherdswell, Kent

Historical Description

Sibbertswold, Sherbertswould, or Shepherdswell, a parish, with a village, in Kent, with a station, of the name of Shepherds Well, on the L.C. & D.R., 72 miles from London, and 6 NW by N of Dover. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dover. Acreage, 1850; population of the civil parish, 520; of the ecclesiastical, 681. The railway here traverses a tunnel 1½ mile long. There are Roman entrenchments in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage, united with Coldred, in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is a small building of flint in the Early English style.

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 parishSibbertswold St. Andrew 
HundredBewsborough 
LatheSt. Augustine 
Poor Law unionDover 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sibbertswold, Sherbertswould, or Shepherdswell from the following:


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.

Advertisement

Advertisement