Weald, Kent

Historical Description

Weald, a village and a parish in Kent, on the edge of the Weald, 2½ miles S of Sevenoaks station on the S.E.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sevenoaks. Population, 896. It was made a separate parish under the Local Government Act of 1894, and has a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £175 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Sevenoaks. The church was built in 1820, and is a building of stone in the Early English style; it was enlarged in 1872. There are amis-houses for eight poor parishioners.

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
Civil parish	Seven Oaks
Hundred	Codsheath
Lathe	Sutton-at-Hone
Poor Law union	Sevenoaks

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 Weald from the following:

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

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.