Kennington, Kent

Historical Description

Kennington, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 2 miles NNE of Ashford station on the L.C. & D.R. and S.E.R., near the river Stour, and has a fair on 6 July, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ashford. Acreage, 1382; population, 890. There are brick and tile works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church consists of nave, chance], and two chapels adjacent to the chancel. It is a handsome edifice with a beautiful E window, and a tower and small beacon turret; it was well restored in 1878. There is a small Congregational chapel. Lord Gerard is lord of the manor. Kennington Hall, Kennington House, and Bockhanger are the chief residences.

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 Kennington from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Kennington 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.