Hunton, Kent

Historical Description

Hunton, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands near the river Beault, 3 miles E by S of Yalding station on the S.E.B., and 4¼ SW by S of Maidstone. It has a post and money order office under Maidstone; telegraph office, Yalding. Acreage, 2075; population, 934. The manor belonged to the Lenhams, passed to the Giffords, the Clintons, the Wyatts, and others, and belongs now to the Right Hon. Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Hunton Court, the seat of the Bannermans, is a handsome mansion in a well-wooded park. Hops are largely cultivated. Two remarkable thunderstorms occurred here in 1746 and 1763. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £600 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is neat and good, has a tower and spire, contains some ancient monuments of the Fanes, and was restored in 1876. Bishop Porteous was rector.

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.

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 Hunton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hunton (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Hunton 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.