Bobbing, Kent
Historical Description
Bobbing, a parish in Kent, 1½ mile W by N of Milton, and 2 miles NW of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Sittingbourne. Acreage, 1068; population, 435. The manor belonged to the Savages, and afterwards to the Cliffords. Bobbing Court, the seat of the Savages, is now a ruin. Bobbing Street, about a mile NE of the church, is on a branch of Watheng Street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £106. The church is ancient and good, has a tower and spire, and contains a piscina and monuments of the Savages and the Tuftons. Titus Gates was vicar. On Klycol Hill are the Sittingbourne Water-works. The Sittingbourne and Milton Joint Hospital for infectious diseases was erected on Klycol Hill at a cost of £5000.
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 | Bobbing St. Bartholomew | |
| Hundred | Milton | |
| Lathe | Scray | |
| Poor Law union | Milton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1560, but is incomplete.
Findmypast have the following online for Bobbing, St Bartholomew: baptisms 1738-1919, marriages 1738-1962, burials 1738-1922
Churches
Church of England
St. Bartholomew (parish church)
The church of St. Bartholomew is of flint, in the Early English and Decorated styles, and has a western tower containing 6 bells; there are monuments of the Tufton and Sandford families, and brasses (1410-20) to the Savages, once owners of the manor: there are 200 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bobbing from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bobbing (St. Bartholomew))
Maps
Online maps of Bobbing 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.