Fordcombe, Kent
Historical Description
Fordcombe, a hamlet in Penshurst parish, Kent, situated on the Medway, 5 miles from Penshurst station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office of the name of Fordcombe Green, under Tunbridge Wells; money order and telegraph office, Langton Green. The church, in the Early English style, was erected in 1847 and enlarged in 1883. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £120. Patron, Lord De PIsle and Dudley. There are some large paper mills.
Church Records
Findmypast have the following online for Fordcombe, St Peter: burials 1806-1922
Maps
Online maps of Fordcombe 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.