Langton or Langton Green, Kent
Historical Description
Langton or Langton Green, an ecclesiastical parish in Speldhurst parish, Kent, 1¼ mile S by W of Speldhurst village. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge Wells. Population, 661. It contains several gentlemen's seats and neat villas. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £180 with residence, in the gift of the Rector of Speldhurst. The church was erected in 1863 and enlarged in 1889, is a small building of stone in the Early English style. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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.