Sidcup, Kent

Historical Description

Sidcup, a village, formerly a chapelry, in Chislehurst parish, Kent. The village has a station on the S.E.R. 12 miles from London and 2¾ SE of Eltham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 4313. The chapelry was constituted in 1844, and in 1863 exchanged the greater part of the village of Footscray lying on the outskirts of Chislehurst for that part of Footscray lying to the W of Sidcup. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £350 with residence. The church was built in 1844, and is a building of flint and brick in the I Byzantine style; it was altered and enlarged in 1875, and again in 1882. There is an iron chapel of ease. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Baptist chapels, a public hall, and a cottage hospital. Many handsome residences have been erected and fine roads formed in recent years, and the village has grown into a popular residential resort.

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 Sidcup from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sidcup 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.