Charing Heath, Kent
Historical Description
Charing Heath, an ecclesiastical parish in Kent, formed from the parishes of Charing and Lenham in 1874. It is 2¼ miles NW from Charing station on the L.C. & D.R., and has a post office under Ashford. Population, 592. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net yearly value, £175 with residence. The church is a plain stone building in the Early English style.
Church Records
The register of baptisms dates from 1872; burials from 1813; and marriages from 1874.
Findmypast have the following online for Charing Heath, Holy Trinity: baptisms 1872-1919, marriages 1874-1919
Churches
Church of England
The Holy Trinity (parish church)
The church of the Holy Trinity is a plain stone building, in the Early English style, and has a turret containing one bell: there are three memorial windows to Miss Sayer, who enlarged the church in 1874: it affords 200 sittings.
Maps
Online maps of Charing Heath 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.