Mark Beech, Kent

Historical Description

Mark Beech, a chapelry in Cowden and Hever parishes, Kent, 2½ miles NE of the meeting-point with Surrey and Sussex, and half a mile from Cowden station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It was constituted in 1852. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Cowden. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 244. The higher grounds command extensive views. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £54 with residence. The church was built in 1852, consists of nave and chancel, with small tower and shingle spire, and has some painted windows.

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.