Shorne, Kent
Historical Description
Shorne, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 2½ miles SW of Higham station on the S.E.R., and 3½ SE of Gravesend, and has a post and money order office under Gravesend; telegraph office, Cobham. The parish includes Thong and Shorne Ifield hamlets. Acreage, 3234; population, 858. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Shorne Manor belonged anciently to the Crown, and belongs now to the. Earl of Darnley. Roundall Manor belonged to the Northwoods, and passed to the Savages, the Nevills, the Cobhams, and others. Court Lodge and Pipes Place are chief residences. An eminence in the S commands a very extensive view of the basin of the Thames. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; net value, £240. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is chiefly Decorated and Perpendicular, and has been well restored. There are Wesleyan. and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Kent | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Shorne St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Shamwell | |
Lathe | Aylesford | |
Poor Law union | North Aylesford |
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 Shorne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shorne (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Shorne 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.