Cheriton, Kent

Historical Description

Cheriton, a parish in Kent, on the coast, 1 mile from Shorncliffe station on the S.E.R., and 2½ miles W by N of Folkestone. It includes part of Sandgate village. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sandgate. The area is 1436 acres of land and 21 of tidal water and foreshore; population of the civil parish, 5957; of the ecclesiastical, 4798. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury, and till 1867 was united with Newington; net value, -£273 with residence. The church is ancient, but was restored in 1873 and again in 1877. There are a Congregational chapel, cottage homes erected in 1888, and a village hall, with reading-room.

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
Ecclesiastical parish	Cheriton St. Martin
Hundred	Folkestone
Lathe	Shepway
Poor Law union	Elham

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1563.

Findmypast have the following online for Cheriton, All Souls: baptisms 1890-1905, marriages 1895-1905

Findmypast have the following online for Cheriton, St Martin: baptisms 1725-1912, marriages 1725-1868, burials 1725-1958

Churches

Church of England

St. Martin (parish church)

The church of St. Martin is an ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Early English style, and has a tower of the 11th century containing 6 bells: there is a fragment of ancient stained glass, three recumbent figures of the 14th century, some brasses and several memorial windows: the church was restored in 1873, and the tower in 1877: there are 350 sittings. A lych gate was erected in 1898.

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 Cheriton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Cheriton 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.

District	Shepway
County	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Postal district	CT19
Post Town	Folkestone