Petham, Kent

Historical Description

Petham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands near Stane Street, 3 miles SSE of Chartham station on the S.E.R., and 5 S by W of Canterbury. It has a post and money order office under Canterbury; telegraph office, Chartham. The parish contains also the hamlets of Swarling and Garlinge Green. Acreage, 3338; population of the civil parish, 622; of the ecclesiastical, with Waltham, 1088. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor was given in 1036 to Christchurch, Canterbury, and passed after the Reformation to the Crown. There are remains of entrenchments, which have been generally ascribed to Cffisar. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Waltham, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £580 with residence. The church consists of aisles and chancel,. with a tower. There is a Methodist chapel.

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 Petham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Petham (All Saints))

Maps

Online maps of Petham 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.