East Wickham, Kent

Historical Description

Wickham, East, a parish in Kent, 10 miles from London, with a station called Walling on the Blackheath and Bexley Heath branch of the S.E.R., and 3 SE of Woolwich. It contains part of Welling hamlet, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 895; population, 1303. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Wickham House is a seat in the parish, and there are other good residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £125. The church is a small building of flint and brick in the Early English style. There is an endowed school, founded by William Foster in 1727, with an annual income of about £240.

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 Wickham, St Michael: baptisms 1813-1846, marriages 1714-1837, burials 1813-1846

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 Wickham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of East Wickham 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.