Perry Street, Kent

Historical Description

Perry Street, an ecclesiastical parish in Kent, 1 mile from Gravesend station on the S.E.R. It was formed from the civil parish of Northfleet in 1871, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Gravesend. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £170. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church is a stone building in the Early English style, and was erected in 1870. There are Congregational and Methodist chapels, and a reading-room connected with the church.

Maps

Online maps of Perry Street 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.