East Peckham, Kent

Historical Description

Peckham, East, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1½ mile NW of Yalding station on the S.E.R., and 51 miles NE by E of Tonbridge. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tonbridge. Acreage of parish, 3410; population, 2002. There is a parish council of eleven members. Roydon Hall was formerly the seat of the Twysdehs, and is now. The seat of the Gordon-Lennox family. There is a large tannery. The river Medway passes through the parish, and has a wharf at Branbridges. Large quantities of hops are grown in the neighbourhood. A section was constituted a parochial district, under the name of The Holy Trinity, in 1843. Both the head living and that of Trinity are vicarages in the diocese of Canterbury; net value of the former, £430 with residence; of the latter, £300 with residence. Patrons of the former, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury; of the latter, the Vicar of East Peckham. The parochial church, restored in 1885, consists of nave, S aisle, chancel, and private chapel, with a tower. Trinity Church, built in 1842, is a neat edifice with a bell-turret. There are Wesleyan, Methodist, and Baptist chapels.

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 Peckham, Holy Trinity: baptisms 1825-1911, marriages 1843-1947, burials 1843-1940

Findmypast have the following online for East Peckham, St Michael: baptisms 1558-1919, marriages 1558-1962, burials 1552-1922

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 Peckham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of East Peckham 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.