Kenardington, Kent

Historical Description

Kenardington, a parish, with a village, in Kent, near the Royal Military Canal, 1½ mile SW of Ham Street station on the S.E.R., and 7 miles SSW of Ashford. Post town, Ham Street, under Asbford. Acreage, 2149; population, 194. Much of the land is occupied with coppice, called Silcox Wood. An ancient earthwork is on elevated ground near the village, is connected by a narrow causeway with another ancient earthwork in the marsh below, and these works are supposed by some to have been formed by the ancient British-by others to have been formed about 893 during the wars between Alfred and the Danes. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £190 with residence. The church comprises aisle and chancel, with a bell-turret, and succeeded one which was destroyed by lightning in 1559.

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 Kenardington from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Kenardington 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.