Southend, Kent

Historical Description

Southend, a chapelry in Lewisham parish, Kent, a quarter of a mile from Beckenham Hill station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Lewisham, under London, SE. The scenery is picturesque, and the entire locality has undergone rapid improvement, and has some fine residences. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Lewisham, in the diocese of Rochester.

Maps

Online maps of Southend 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.