High Halstow, Kent

Historical Description

Halstow, High, a parish in Kent, 5½ miles N by E of Rochester. There is a station in the parish at Sharnal Street on the Hundred Hoo branch of the S.E.R. Post town, Rochester; money order office, Hoo; telegraph office, Shamel Street station. Acreage, 3212; population, 344. Northwood Hill commands an extensive view of the shore of the Thames. Part of the land is marsh, with reed beds, and the Mean is a tract of 262 acres indefinitely divided between this parish and Hoo St Mary. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £400 with residence. The church has a brass of 1396, and is good.

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 High Halstow, St Margaret: baptisms 1653-1916, marriages 1615-1935, burials 1654-1957

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 High Halstow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Halstow, High, (St. Margaret))

Maps

Online maps of High Halstow 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.