Whitfield, Kent

Historical Description

Whitfield, a parish in Kent, 1½ mile from Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and 3½ N by W of Dover. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Ewell. Acreage, 913; population, 335. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarages of Waldershare and West Langdon, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £400. The church, dedicated to St Peter, was restored in 1894, and consists of Saxon, Norman, and Early English work. There is a Congregational chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Whitfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitfield (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Whitfield 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.