Ditton, Kent

Historical Description

Ditton, a parish in Kent, near the river Medway, three-fourths of a mile SSW of Aylesford station on the S.E.R., and 3¼ miles NW of Maidstone. Post town, Maidstone; money order office, Larkfield; telegraph office, East Mailing. Acreage, 1069; population, 874. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £430 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Aylesford. The church is Decorated English, and has been carefully restored.

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 register dates from about the year 1667.

Findmypast have the following online for Ditton, St Peter ad Vincula: baptisms 1813-1891, marriages 1567-1837, burials 1663-1812

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 Ditton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ditton (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of Ditton 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.