Goodnestone or Gunston, Kent

Historical Description

Goodnestone or Gunston, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1½ mile E by N of Adisham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 6 miles WSW of Sandwich, and has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Nonington. The parish comprises 1864 acres; population, 397. Goodnestone Park is a seat in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £200. The church has an Early English aisle and a Kentish Late English tower, but is mainly modern. The families of Boys, Engeham, Bridges, Richards, and Bradnax are commemorated by tablet, slab, or monument. There are brasses of 1423, 1507, and 1558.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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	Goodnestone Holy Cross
Hundred	Wingham
Lathe	St. Augustine
Poor Law union	Eastry

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Goodnestone next Wingham, Holy Cross: baptisms 1558-1893, marriages 1594-1893, burials 1564-1961

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Goodnestone or Gunston from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Goodnestone (Holy Cross))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.