Rainham, Kent
Historical Description
Rainham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 39 miles from London, and 4 ESE of Chatham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sittingbourne. Acreage of parish, 3562; population, 3082. The parish council consists of eleven members. The manor belongs to Lord Hothfield. Berengrave Hall is the chief residence. Bricks and cement are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £420 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is partly of the 12th century; has a nave, N aisle, and two chancels; and contains a carved rood-screen, three-stone sedilia, and monuments of the Tuftons. The burial vaults of the Earls of Thanet are beneath the N chancel. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist chapels, and a public hall.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ecclesiastical parish | Rainham St. Margaret |
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 Rainham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rainham (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Rainham 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.