Hildenborough, Kent
Historical Description
Hildenborough or Hilderborough, a hamlet in Tunbridge parish, and a chapelry partly also in Leigh parish, Kent, with a station on the S.E.R., 26 miles from London, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tun-bridge. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 1325. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, , £250 with residence. The church was built in 1844, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire. There is a Baptist chapel. A large cricket-ball manufactory is in the district.
Church Records
Findmypast have the following online for Hildenborough, St John the Evangelist: baptisms 1844-1919, marriages 1844-1919, burials 1845-1922
Maps
Online maps of Hildenborough 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.