River, Kent

Historical Description

River, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Dour, adjacent to Kearsney station on the L.C. & D.R., and 2 miles NW from Dover. Acreage of the civil parish, 1194; population, 758; of the ecclesiastical, 1489. Kearsney Abbey, Woodside, and Old Park are chief residences. There are paper and corn mills. The living is a vicarage, united with Guston, in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £306. Patron, the Archbishop. The church was rebuilt in 1832, and has been restored. There is a large parish-room with small rooms attached, built in 1892.

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 River from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (River (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of River 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.