Guston, Kent

Historical Description

Guston, a parish in Kent, about 2 miles from Dover station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Dover. Acreage, 1412; population, 731. Guston is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury, and was annexed in 1868 to the vicarage of River; joint value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Norman, and has three lancet windows at the east end. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Guston, St Martin of Tours: baptisms 1606-1912, marriages 1698-1924, burials 1669-1863

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 Guston from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Guston 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.