Snodland, Kent

Historical Description

Snodland, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Medway, with a station on the S.E.R., 37 miles from London, and 5¼ SSW of Rochester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish contains also the hamlets of Paddlesworth, Holborough, and Rookery. Acreage, 1845; population of the civil parish, 3188; of the ecclesiastical, 3164. Holborough Court is the chief residence. A hill above Holborough was anciently fortified, and commands an extensive view. A tessellated pavement and other Roman remains were discovered near the river in 1869. There are some extensive lime and cement works in the neighbourhood, also a large paper mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church contains portions from Early English to Perpendicular, includes Roman bricks and tiles in its walls, and has been well restored. There are Congregational and Methodist chapels, a handsome Swedenborgian church, erected in 1882, a working-men's institute, and a temperance hall.

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 Snodland from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Snodland 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.