Westenhanger, Kent

Historical Description

Westenhanger, a railway station and a quondam parish in the SE of Kent, The station is on the S.E.R., 64 miles from London, and 2½ NW of Hythe. The quondam parish lies around the station, and retains a remarkable fragment of a moated, fortified 13th century manorial seat, which belonged to the Aubervilles, and passed to the Criolls, the Poynings, the Smiths, and the Champneis. Queen Elizabeth visited the seat in 1573.

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 Westenhanger from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westenhanger, or Ostenhanger (St. Thomas à Becket))

Maps

Online maps of Westenhanger 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.