Riverhead, Kent

Historical Description

Riverhead, a village and a chapelry in Sevenoaks parish, Kent The village stands 1 mile WNW of Sevenoaks station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sevenoaks. The chapelry is also a liberty. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 905. Montreal Park is the seat of Earl Amherst, and stands amid fine grounds. Bradbourne Hall was built in 1730, and occupies the site of a previous mansion which was visited by Queen Elizabeth. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £40 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Sevenoaks. The church was built in 1831, is in the Pointed style, and has a small spire.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Riverhead from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Riverhead 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.