Sholden or Shoulden, Kent

Historical Description

Sholden or Shoulden, a parish in Kent, 1½ mile W of Deal station on the S.E.R. and L.C. & D.R., and extending to the coast. It has a post office under Deal; money order and telegraph office, Deal. Acreage, 1816; population, 370. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Lord Northbourne is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is good and was restored in 1880.

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 Sholden or Shoulden from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sholden or Shoulden 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.