Hartlip, Kent

Historical Description

Hartlip, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands near Watling Street, 1 mile from Newington station on the L.C. & D.R., and 5¼ miles ESE of Chatham. It has a post office under Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Newington. Acreage, 1422; population, 376. Remains of Roman baths, attached to a Roman villa in a field called Lower Danefield, were discovered about 1750 and laid open in 1848, and at their first discovery, were found to contain many bushels of wheat, apparently scorched by fire. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £208 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is cruciform, and of the latter part of the 13th century; has a square Norman tower; was restored in 1865 and 1885, and contains a handsome font. There are a Bible Christian chapel and an endowed school.

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 Hartlip, St Michael & All Angels: baptisms 1538-1919, marriages 1538-1919, burials 1538-1945

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 Hartlip from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Hartlip 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.