East Malling, Kent

Historical Description

Malling, East, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1 mile from Mailing station on the L.C. & D.R., and 4 miles WNW of Maidstone. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidstone. The parish contains the hamlets of Larkfield and New Hythe. Acreage, 2793; population, 2378. The parish council, under the Local Government Act (1894), consists of eleven members. Clare House and Bradbonrne House are chief residences. Hops are grown, and there are two paper mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £370 with residence. The church has portions from Saxon to Late Perpendicular; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; includes a Decorated English chapel at the E end of the N aisle; contains brasses of 1479 and 1522; and was given by Archbishop Anselm to the nunnery of West Mailing, but has long been in private patronage. The building was restored in 1871 and again in 1885. The nave walls are entirely covered with excellent frescoes. The chapel of New Hythe stands between New Hythe and Larkfield, and is a small building. There is a Wesleyan 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 Malling, St James: baptisms 1570-1919, marriages 1570-1919, burials 1570-1924

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 Malling from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of East Malling 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.