Seal, Kent

Historical Description

Seal, a village and a parish in Kent The village stands 2 miles E of Sevenoaks station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sevenoaks. The parish contains also the hamlets of Under River and Godden Green, and comprises 4445 acres; population of the civil parish, 1782; of the ecclesiastical, 1580. Wilderness Park is the seat of Lord Hillingdon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, Lord Sackville. The church ranges from Early English to Perpendicular, and contains some handsome monuments of the Camden family. There are a Bible Christian chapel and a convalescent home.

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 Seal from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Seal 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.