Cuxton, Kent
Historical Description
Cuxton, a parish in Kent, on the river Medway, 2½ miles SW by S of Strood. It has a station on the S.E.R., 32 miles from London, and a post office under Rochester; money order and telegraph office, Lower Hailing. Acreage, 1692;. population, 462. The surface is hilly. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £303. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church is ancient.
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 | Cuxton St. Michael | |
| Hundred | Shamwell | |
| Lathe | Aylesford | |
| Poor Law union | North Aylesford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1560.
Findmypast have the following online for Cuxton, St Michael & All Angels: baptisms 1560-1915, marriages 1560-1953, burials 1560-1992
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael, originally Norman, but altered and added to in later periods, has a tower of Perpendicular character containing 5 bells: the interior has been restored and some stained windows inserted: there is a slightly mutilated inscription on brass to John Buttye, parson of Cuxton and chaplain to Prince Edward, afterwards Edward VI.; this brass is palimpsest, the reverse showing part of a canopy with figures of saints and angels; it belongs to a high tomb now in the churchyard and believed to have been formerly in the church: there are 200 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Mission Room
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 Cuxton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cuxton (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Cuxton 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.