Witchling or Wychling, Kent
Historical Description
Witchling or Wychling, a parish in Kent, 5½ miles S by E of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Doddington. Acreage, 1111; population, 116. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £255 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and was restored in 1887.
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 | Witchling St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Eyhorne | |
Lathe | Aylesford | |
Poor Law union | Hollingbourne |
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 Witchling or Wychling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Witchling (St. Margaret))
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.