Plaxtol, Kent

Historical Description

Plaxtol, a village and an ecclesiastical district in Wrotham civil parish, Kent. The village stands 7 miles ESE of Seven Oaks station and 3 of Wrotham strtion on the L.C. & D.R. and the S.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Seven Oaks. The ecclesiastical district was constituted in 1844. Population, 986. Fairlawn, a seat of the Cazalet family, is a handsome mansion in an extensive park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is unique, having been built by order of Parliament in the time of Cromwell, 1649. It is in the Late Perpendicular style.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Plaxtol from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Plaxtol)

Maps

Online maps of Plaxtol 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.