Elham, Kent

Historical Description

Elham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Stour, 6 miles NNE of Hythe, and has a station on the S.E.R., 71 miles from London. It has a post and money order office under Canterbury; telegraph office, at the station. Acreage, 6599; population, 1225. The manor belonged at the Conquest to the Earl of Ewe, and passed through the Leybournes and others to the Oxendens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, Merton College, Oxford, under nomination by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early and Later English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed., school. There are large brick works.

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 Elham, St Mary the Virgin: baptisms 1566-1909, marriages 1566-1928, burials 1566-1895

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 Elham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Elham 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.