St Nicholas at Wade, Kent

Historical Description

Nicholas-at-Wade, St, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on comparatively high ground, overlooking the marshes of the Stour, 3 miles NE of Grove Ferry station on the S.E.R., and 6½ WSW of Margate. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 3561; population, 548; of the ecclesiastical, 708. The living is a vicarage, united with Sarre, in the diocese of Canterbury; joint net value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was originally a chapel of ease to Reculver; was transferred to the monks of Christchurch, Canterbury, and was rebuilt by them; is partly Norman, partly Early English, partly Decorated English, with interesting features; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a porch and a lofty tower; and was restored in 1876. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for St Nicholas at Wade from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Nicholas, St., At Wade)

Maps

Online maps of St Nicholas at Wade 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.