Hurst, Kent

Historical Description

Hurst (properly Falconer's Hurst), a parish in Kent, on the Royal Military Canal, and partly within Romney Marsh, 2¾ miles S of Smeeth station on the S.E.R., and 7½ SE of Ash-ford. . Post town, Hythe; money order office, Aldington; telegraph office, Sellinge. Acreage, 489; population, 84. The living is a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £80. The church, dedicated to St Leonards, no longer exists, though there is an enclosed churchyard, and the inhabitants attend the churches of Bonnington and Aldington.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hurst from the following:

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

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.