Hastingleigh, Kent

Historical Description

Hastingleigh, a parish in Kent, 4 miles ESE of Wye station on the S.E.R., and NE by E of Ashford. It has a post office under Ashford; money order and telegraph office, Wye. Acreage, 1553; population of the civil parish, 198; of the ecclesiastical, 562. About 13 acres are under hops. The living is a rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Elmstead, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £390 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is very ancient but good, and consists of a nave and aisle and a chancel, with a tower.

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 Hastingleigh, St Mary the Virgin: baptisms 1730-1911, marriages 1730-1836, burials 1730-1841

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 Hastingleigh from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Hastingleigh 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.