East Langdon, Kent

Historical Description

Langdon, East, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands half a mile from Martin Mill station on the Dover and Deal railway. The parish contains also the hamlet of Martin. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, St Margaret-at-Cliffe. Acreage, 1085; population, 321. Lord Northboume is lord of th& manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, s£120 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Guilford. The church, dedicated to St Augustine, is principally Norman of the early 12th century, and has a tower. It has a leper window, an old wrought-iron hourglass, a fine cope of mediaeval embroidery, and is of great interest to the archaeologist. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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

Findmypast have the following online for East Langdon, St Augustine: baptisms 1771-1890, marriages 1769-1837, burials 1737-1890

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 East Langdon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Langdon, East (St. Augustine))

Maps

Online maps of East Langdon 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.