Luton, Kent

Historical Description

Luton, a chapelry in Chatham parish, Kent, 1½ mile SE of Chatham station on the L.O. & D.E. and S.E.R. It was constituted in 1852, declared a rectory in 1866, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chatham. Population, 7454. Brickmaking is carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Eochester; value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Eector of Chatham. The church was erected in 1885. There is a Bible Christian chapel.

Maps

Online maps of Luton 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.