Rodmersham, Kent
Historical Description
Rodmersham, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 1¾ mile SE of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post office under Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Sittingbourne. Acreage, 1234; population, 407. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £110 with residence. The church is Early English, in good condition, and contains three curious antique wooden seats, overhung by a canopy, and supposed to have been formed for knights of St John. There is a Bible Christians' chapel.
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 | Rodmersham St. Nicholas | |
Hundred | Milton | |
Lathe | Scray | |
Poor Law union | Milton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rodmersham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rodmersham (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Rodmersham 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.