Woodchurch, Kent
Historical Description
Woodchurch, a parish, with an ancient village, in Kent, 4 miles NW of Appledore station on the S.E.R., and 7 SW of Ashford. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ashford. Acreage, 7002; population, 1179. Hengherst is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £430 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is a handsome building of stone in the Early English style, and contains some ancient monuments. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels.
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 | Woodchurch All Saints | |
Hundred | Blackbourne | |
Lathe | Scray | |
Poor Law union | Tenterden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Woodchurch from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woodchurch (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Woodchurch 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.