Orlestone, Kent

Historical Description

Orlestone, a hamlet and a parish in Kent. The hamlet lies 1 mile N of Ham Street station on the S.E.R., 2 N of the Grand Military Canal, and 5 S by W of Ashford. The parish contains also the village of Ham Street, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1774; population of the civil parish, 458; of the ecclesiastical, 457. There are brick-fields and extensive woods. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £30 with residence. The church is a small building of stone in the Decorated style. The manor house and the old parsonage both contain timber work of the 14th century.

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 Orlestone from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Orlestone 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.