Kingsnorth, Kent

Historical Description

Kingsnorth, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 2½ miles S of Ashford station on the S.E.R., and has a post office under Ashford; telegraph office, Ashford. Acreage, 8247; population, 597. Part of the surface is marshland, part is woodland, and about 50 acres hop-garden. The Kent County Industrial School, situated here, was built in 1875 at a cost of £10, 000, and in 1882 it was considerably enlarged at a cost of nearly £7000; it now has acccommoda-tion for 200 boys. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £350 with residence. The church is ancient.

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 Kingsnorth from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Kingsnorth 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.