Old Wives Lees or Oldwoods Lees, Kent
Historical Description
Old-Wives-Lees or Oldwoods Lees, a place in the NE of Kent, 4½ miles SW of Canterbury. An annual race on 19 May, by young maids and bachelors, was instituted here by Sir D. Digges of Chilham, but is now obsolete.
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.