Grange, Kent

Historical Description

Grange, an extra-parochial township in Kent, on the river Medway, 1 mile E of the New Brompton station on the L.C. & D.R., and 2½ miles ENE of Chatham. It is a member of the cinque port of Hastings, and it belonged to the Hastings, Philipott, and Bamines families. Acreage, 256; population, 179. A small chapel in Perpendicular architecture was built here by Sir John Philipott in the time of Richard II., and is now in ruins.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Grange from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Grange 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.