Wilmington, Kent
Historical Description
Wilmington, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 1 mile from Dartford station on the S.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Dartford; telegraph office, Hextable. Acreage, 1716; population, 1722. The manor belonged to Warwick the Kingmaker, and to Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury. Much of the land is disposed in gardens and cherry orchards. The Masonic Hall and buildings were erected in 1883 by the Lullingstone Lodge of Freemasons, at a cost of over £1600. There is a retreat for aged governesses, consisting of five cottages. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net; value, £185 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church stands on a hill, and is a handsome building of Kentish rag in the Perpendicular style, was enlarged in 1881, and again in 1883, and contains several handsome memorial windows. The antiquary Denne was vicar.
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 | Wilmington St. Michael | |
Hundred | Axton | |
Lathe | Sutton-at-Hone | |
Poor Law union | Dartford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wilmington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wilmington (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Wilmington 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.