Hoath, Kent

Historical Description

Hoath, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 2½ miles NW of Grove Ferry station on the S.E.R., and 3 NE of Canterbury. It has a post and money order office under Canterbury; telegraph office, Chislet. The parish contains the hamlets of Maypole Street and Old Tree. Acreage, 914; population of the civil parish, 359; of the ecclesiastical, 603. The manor belongs to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Some scanty remains exist of the archiepiscopal palace of Ford. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Eeculver, in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £166. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is an ancient structure, with a tower and spire, built in 1302, and restored in 1870, when a new aisle was added on the N side of the nave. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Hoath, Holy Cross: baptisms 1554-1870, marriages 1559-1924, burials 1559-1974

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 Hoath from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hoath (Holy Cross))

Maps

Online maps of Hoath 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.