Knowlton, Kent

Historical Description

Knowlton, a parish in Kent, 2 miles SW of Eastry, and 3½ E by S of Adisham station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Wingham. Acreage, 430; population, 36. Knowlton Court, a fine old mansion, belongs to the D'Aeth family, whose ancestor, Narborough, was lost with Admiral Shovell in 1707 on the Scilly Islands, and stands in a richly-wooded park of upwards of 300 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £125.

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 Knowlton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Knowlton 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.