Stoke, Kent
Historical Description
Stoke, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the Medway estuary, 3 miles from Shamal Street station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Rochester. Acreage, 3070; population, 675. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £180. The church is of the time of Edward I. There are Bible Christian and Roman Catholic 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 | Stoke St. Peter | |
Hundred | Hoo | |
Lathe | Aylesford | |
Poor Law union | Hoo |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stoke from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Stoke 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.