Sandhurst, Kent

Historical Description

Sandhurst, a village and a parish in Kent. The village is 4 miles from Hawkhurst station, and 6½ E by N from Etchingham station on the S.E.R., and 6 S by E of Cranbrook. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hawkhurst. The parish is separated from Sussex by the river Rother. Acreage, 4421; population, 1106. There is a parish council of consisting of nine members. Downgate is the seat of the Oakes family. Part of the land is marsh and part is under hops. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is very Early Decorated English, and was restored in 1876. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A clock tower was erected in 1889. A cattle fair is held on 25 May.

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 Sandhurst from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sandhurst 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.