Dunton Green, Kent
Historical Description
Dunton-Green, a village and an ecclesiastical district with a railway station on the S.E.R., in the civil parish of Otford, Kent, 1¼ mile N of Sevenoaks, and 19 miles from London. There is a post and money order office under Sevenoaks; telegraph office at the railway station. Population, 812. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £60. The church of St John the Evangelist is a red brick building in the Early English style. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. There is a Congregational mission hall.
Church Records
The register of baptisms and marriages begins with the year 1890; and of burials, January, 1893; former registers are included in Otford.
Findmypast have the following online for Dunton Green, St John the Divine: baptisms 1890-1919, marriages 1890-1919
Churches
Church of England
St. John the Evangelist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Evangelist, erected at a cost of about £1,900, and consecrated 24 March, 1890, is of red brick with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style, and has a turret containing one bell: the east and other windows are stained: there are 220 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
Maps
Online maps of Dunton Green 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.