Sellinge, Kent

Historical Description

Sellinge, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 2 miles from Smeeth station on the S.E.R., and 5 NW by W of Hythe, is a scattered place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hythe. The parish comprises 1928 acres; population of the civil parish, 626; of the ecclesiastical, 632. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £290 with residence. The church is old, and has a low Norman tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some considerable charities.

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.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sellinge from the following:

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

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.