Elmstone, Kent

Historical Description

Elmstone, a parish in Kent, near the river Stour, 3 miles S of Grove Ferry station on the S.E.R., and 2¼ NNE of Wingham. Post town, Sandwich; money order office, Wing-ham; telegraph office, Grove Ferry. Acreage, 439; population, 74. Elmstone Court is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £200 witli residence. The church was thoroughly repaired in 1878.

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 Elmstone: baptisms 1552-1812, marriages 1565-1834, burials 1551-1841

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 Elmstone from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Elmstone 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.