Fawkham, Kent

Historical Description

Fawkham, a parish in Kent. It has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 24 miles from London, 5¼ SE of. Dartford, and 6 SW of Gravesend. It has a post and money order office under Longfield; telegraph office, Longfield. The. area is 1198 acres; population, 232. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; net value, —£135 with residence. The church has recently been repaired and reseated, and has a small organ.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Kent
Ecclesiastical parish	Fawkham St. Mary
Hundred	Axton
Lathe	Sutton-at-Hone
Poor Law union	Dartford

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Fawkham, St Mary: baptisms 1568-1914, marriages 1569-1939, burials 1568-1950

Findmypast have the following online for Fawkham, St Mary the Virgin: baptisms 1813-1914, marriages 1813-1935, burials 1814-1980

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 Fawkham from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fawkham, or Facombe (St. Mary))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.