Preston next Faversham, Kent
Historical Description
Preston-next-Faversham, a parish in Kent, on the L.C. & D.R,, at Faversham station, 53 miles from London, and adjoining the town of Faversham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Faversham. Acreage, 1564; population of the civil parish, 2374; of the ecclesiastical, 1143. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor was originally called Coppanstone, was given in the 9th century by King Renulf to Christchurch, Canterbury, and afterwards took the name of Priest's Town or Preston. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early English, has a small tower, and contains a fine monument of Roger Boyle and some brasses.
PRESTON, NORTH, or THE BRENTS, is a part of the civil parish of Preston-next-Faversham. Bricks are largely manufactured. The church of St John is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, and was erected in 1881.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Kent | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Preston St. Catherine | |
| Hundred | Faversham | |
| Lathe | Scray | |
| Poor Law union | Faversham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Preston next Faversham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Preston (St. Catherine))
Maps
Online maps of Preston next Faversham 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.