Fairfield, Kent

Historical Description

Fairfield, a parish in Kent, near the military canal, 2½ miles SSE of Appledore station on the S.E.R., and 6½ WNW of New Romney. Post town, Appledore, under Staplehurst. Acreage, 1206; population, 60. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury, united with Brookland; value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is a brick building.

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 Fairfield, St Thomas a Becket: baptisms 1559-1910, marriages 1559-1917, burials 1558-1859

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 Fairfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fairfield (St. Thomas à Becket,))

Maps

Online maps of Fairfield 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.