Stone near Dartford, Kent

Historical Description

Stone-near-Dartford, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 2 miles from Dartford station on the S.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Greenhithe; telegraph office, Greenhithe. Acreage, 3014; population of the civil parish, 3781; of the ecclesiastical, 3551. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. The manor was given by Ethelred to the Bishops of Rochester. Stone Castle was built in the time of King John, and is now represented by a small tower in an edifice of its own name. There are numerous good mansions and recent villas. Fruit is extensively grown, and chalk and sand are dug. There are two small iron churches and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The City of London Lunatic Asylum, erected in 1866, and the County of Kent Female Penitentiary, established in 1860, are both in this parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £348 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church includes portions from Transition Norman to Later English, and is supposed to have been built by the architect who built Westminster Abbey.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient County	Kent
Ecclesiastical parish	Stone-Near-Dartford St. Mary
Hundred	Axton
Lathe	Sutton-at-Hone
Poor Law union	Dartford

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stone near Dartford from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stone-Near-Dartford (St. Mary))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.