Frinsted, Kent

Historical Description

Frinsted, a parish in Kent, 3¼ miles NE of Hollingbourne, and 3 miles from Lenham station on the L.C. & D.R. It has. a post office under Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Doddington. Acreage, 1290; population of the civil parish, 153; of the ecclesiastical, 201. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £140 with residence. The church is Early Norman, and was repaired and enlarged in 1862.

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 Frinsted, St Dunstan: baptisms 1561-1919, marriages 1560-1914, burials 1560-1922

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 Frinsted from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Frinsted 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.