Shipborne, Kent

Historical Description

Shipborne, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 4 miles N of Tunbridge station on the S.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge. Acreage, 1922; population, 531. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The lord of the manor is chief landowner. Fairhill is the seat of the Earl of Derby. Shipborne Grange is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £240 with residence. The church is a stone edifice in the Early English style, and was erected in 1881. There is a working men's institute. C. Smart, the translator of Horace, was a native.

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 Shipborne from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Shipborne 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.