Graveney, Kent

Historical Description

Graveney, a parish in Kent, with a station on the L.C. & D.R., 50 miles from London, and 3 ENE of Fav-ersham. It has a post office under Faversham; money order and telegraph office, Faversham. Acreage, 2229; population, 266. The manor belonged from 811 to the Archbishops of Canterbury, and figured at Domesday as theirs. The living is a vicarage, united to the rectory of Good-nestone, in the diocese of Canterbury; joint value, o£290 with residence. The church is Early English, with interesting features, and has a Decorated English altar-tomb and a very fine brass of 1436.

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 Graveney, All Saints: baptisms 1659-1911, marriages 1654-1915, burials 1653-1841

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 Graveney from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Graveney 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.