Hollingbourn, Kent

Historical Description

Hollingbourn, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 5¼ miles E of Maidstone, and has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 40 miles from London. It was known at Domesday as Hollingeborde. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidstone. The parish contains also the hamlet of Eyhorne Street and the places called New England, Woodcut Hill, and Greenway Court. Acreage, 4611; population, 964. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. There were formerly paper-mills, and these were converted into flour-mills. An hospital for infectious diseases was erected in 1886, and has ten beds. Very curious relics of unique character, supposed to be Roman, and including a wooden club scarcely 2 feet long and a small wooden sword or dagger, were found about 3¼ feet below the surface during the enlargement of a mill pond in 1862. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury, and till 1868 was united with Hncking. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early and Later English, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with low square tower, and contains many monuments of the Culpepers of the 17th and 18th centuries. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a working-men's club, and charities. Hollingbourn House and the Manor House are chief residences. The district workhouse is 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 Hollingbourne, All Saints: baptisms 1556-1919, marriages 1554-1919, burials 1556-1899

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hollingbourn from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hollingbourne (All Saints))

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

Photographs

Below are photographs of Leeds Castle, taken in 2004. © Nigel Batty-Smith.
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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.