Kingsdown (Ringwould), Kent

Historical Description

Kingsdown, a village and an ecclesiastical district in Ringwould parish, Kent. The village stands on the coast picturesquely under cliffs, l¼ mile SE of Walmer station on the Dover & Deal Joint railway. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has a lifeboat and boat-house on the beach; there is also a coastguard station. It has a post and money order office under Dover; telegraph office, Ringwould. The ecclesiastical district was constituted in 1850. Population, 437. Traces of an ancient camp, supposed to have been Roman, are in a valley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £204 with residence. The church and school were built and endowed in 1850 by Mr W. Curling. There is a village reading-room.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kingsdown (Ringwould) from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingsdown)

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.