Acol, Kent
Historical Description
Acol or Wood, a ville in Thanet, Kent, 3 miles SW of Margate, and 1 mile from Birchington station on the L.C. & D.R. A mission church was erected here in 1876, and there is also a Wesleyan chapel. The money order and telegraph office is at Birchington. Acreage, 1434; population, 365.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Acol 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)
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.