Crockham Hill, Kent
Historical Description
Crockham Hill, a parish in Kent, at the boundary with Surrey, 2 miles N of Edenbridge station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 2½ S of Westerham. It was constituted in 1845, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Eden-bridge. Acreage, 2372; population, 532. A hill which gives name to the parish commands an extensive panoramic view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £150 with residence. The church is good.
Church Records
The parish register dates from 1842
Findmypast have the following online for Crockham Hill, Holy Trinity: baptisms 1842-1887, marriages 1845-1919
Churches
Church of England
Holy Trinity (parish church)
The church of Holy Trinity, erected in 1842, is of stone in the Gothic style, and has a tower containing a clock placed in 1887, at a cost of £66, and one bell: there is a memorial window to Mrs. Shand, and a brass to the Rev. Cameron Churchill M.A. vicar 1886-1901: the church affords 200 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of Crockham Hill 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.