Hackington, Kent

Historical Description

Hackington or St Stephen's, a parish in Kent, on the river Stour, contiguous to St Dunstans, on the N side of Canterbury, and about half a mile from Canterbury station on the S.E.R. Part of it is included in Canterbury city. Post town, Canterbury. Area, 1973 acres; population of the civil parish, 575; of the ecclesiastical, 697. The manor belonged, in the 16th century, to Sir Roger Manwood, and passed to the Colepepers and the Haleses. Hales Place, near the churchyard, superseded a mansion of the Manwoods, was built in 1768 by Sir Edward Hales, and is an edifice in the Ionic style; the building was bought by a society of French Jesuits for educational purposes, and is now called the College of St Mary. New buildings of red brick have been erected for about 300 pupils. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £541. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is cruciform; retains portions built by Archbishop Baldwin; shows characters from Early English to Perpendicular; has a W tower, with massive Early English buttresses; has been restored, and contains, in the S transept, a fine Tudor monument of Sir Roger Manwood. There are almshouses for six aged persons.

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	Hackington St. Stephen
Hundred	Westgate
Lathe	St. Augustine
Poor Law union	Blean

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

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Hackington, St Stephen: baptisms 1567-1910, marriages 1567-1927, burials 1567-1942

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hackington from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hackington (St. Stephen))

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.