Headcorn, Kent

Historical Description

Headcorn, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Beult, and has a station on the S.E.B. 46 miles from London. It consists chiefly of one wide straggling street, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ashford; a hotel, a commodious town-hall built in 1867, a weekly market on Wednesday, a fair on 12 June, and a working-men's club. Acreage, 5077; population, 1450. Some hops are grown, and bricks and tiles are made. An Augustinian priory was founded at Mottenden in 1224 by Sir Robert de Rokesby, and was given at the dissolution to Lord Cromwell, and after his attainder to Sir Anthony Aucher. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Decorated and Later English, consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with a tower, was restored in 1855, and again in 1879. The churchyard has a very old oak, 40 feet in girth. There are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels.

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 Headcorn, Baptist: burials 1813-1837

Findmypast have the following online for Headcorn, SS Peter & Paul: baptisms 1560-1919, marriages 1560-1919, burials 1504-1922

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Headcorn from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Headcorn (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Headcorn 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.