Ryarsh, Kent

Historical Description

Ryarsh, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1½ mile from West Mailing station on the L.C. & D.R., and 6½ miles NW by W of Maidstone. It has a post office under Maidstone; money order and telegraph office, West Malling. The parish includes also part of Aldon hamlet, and comprises 1375 acres; population of the civil parish, 518; of the ecclesiastical, 555. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £300 with residence. The church is partly Norman, but mainly Later English.

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 Ryarsh from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ryarsh 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.