Sarre, Kent

Historical Description

Sarre, a village and a ville in Kent. The village stands on the river Stour, 2 miles NE of Grove Ferry station on the S.E.R., and 8 WSW of Margate. Post town, Birchington; money order and telegraph office, St Nicholas-at-Wade. Acreage, 669; population of the civil parish, 160; of the ecclesiastical, 708. The ville comprises 653 acres, and is a member of the Cinque port liberty of Sandwich. The living is annexed to that of St Nicholas-at-Wade; joint value, £280 with residence. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 Sarre from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sarre 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.