Hardres, Lower, Kent

Historical Description

Hardres, Lower, a parish in Kent, close to Stone Street, and about 3½ miles from Canterbury station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Canterbury. Acreage, 1180; population, 297. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £230 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1831, is in the Early English style, and comprises nave and chancel, with a spire.

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	Lower Hardres St. Mary
Hundred	Bridge and Petham
Lathe	St. Augustine
Poor Law union	Bridge

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hardres, Lower from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hardres, Lower (St. Mary))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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