Challock, Kent

Historical Description

Challock, a parish in Kent, adjacent to the river Stour and to the Ashford and Canterbury railway, 2½ miles NW by W of Wye railway station, and 5 N by E of Ashford, under which it has a post office. Acreage, 2827; population of civil parish, 317; of the ecclesiastical, 378. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £250 with residence. The church is ancient.

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.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the beginning of the year 1558.

Findmypast have the following online for Challock, SS Cosmas & Damian: baptisms 1558-1867, marriages 1558-1928, burials 1558-1980

Churches

Church of England

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Challock from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Challoc (St. Cosmus and St. Damien))

Maps

Online maps of Challock 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.