Northbourne, Kent

Historical Description

Northbourne, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 3 miles W by S of Deal, and 2½ from Walmer station on the Deal and Dover Joint railway; takes its name from a brook or burn which runs to the Stour at Sandwich; and has a post office under Deal; money order and telegraph office, Deal. The parish contains also the hamlets of Finglesham, Ashley, Little Betshanger, Marley, and West Street, and includes the detached tract of Tickenhurst. Acreage, 3659; population, 892. The manor was given in 618 by King Eadbald to the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury; went after the dissolution to the Crown, and belongs now to Lord Northbourne. Northbourne Court was a residence of the monks; is supposed to occupy the site of a palace of King Eadbald; was for some time in the possession of the Sandys family; had then famous hanging gardens, parts of which are still preserved. The site is now occupied by a small mansion. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Norman, Transition, and Early English-large, cruciform, and interesting; has a massive central tower, and contains a triangular-headed piscina and a splendid monument of 1629 to Sir Edwin Sandys.

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 Northbourne from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Northbourne 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.