Stalisfield, Kent

Historical Description

Stalisfield, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 3 miles from Charing station on the L.C. & D.R.,and 6½ SSW of Faversham. It has a post office under Faversham; money order and telegraph office, Charing. Acreage, 2293; population, 328. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is ancient, and has a tower but no spire. There is a small mission church adjoining the vicarage.

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 Stalisfield from the following:

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

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.