Platt, Kent
Historical Description
Platt, an ecclesiastical district in Wrotham civil parish, Kent, 1 mile from Wrotham station on the L.C. & D.R. It was constituted in 1846, and has a post office under Seven Oaks. Population, 955. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church and schools were built in 1845.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Platt 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.