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.
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 | Sibbertswold St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Bewsborough | |
Lathe | St. Augustine | |
Poor Law union | Dover |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sibbertswold (St. Andrew))
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.