Staple, Kent

Historical Description

Staple, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 2 miles ESE of Wingham, and 4 NE of Adisham station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Wingham. Acreage, 1009; population, 547. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. There are market-gardens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £600. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has been restored. There is a Baptist chapel.

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 Staple from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Staple-next-Wingham (St. James))

Maps

Online maps of Staple 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.