Hawkinge, Kent

Historical Description

Hawkinge, a parish in Kent, near the coast, 2 miles N of Folkestone station on the S.E.R., with a post and money order office under Folkestone; telegraph office, Folkestone. It includes the hamlet of Uphill. Acreage, 2352; population, 431. The living is a rectory, annexed to Swingfield, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1875, includes parts which probably are Norman, and has a small bell-turret. There is a Union chapel in the parish.

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 Hawkinge, St Michael: baptisms 1691-1912, marriages 1691-1928, burials 1543-1950

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 Hawkinge from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Hawkinge 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.