Stourmouth, Kent
Historical Description
Stourmouth, a parish, with a village, in Kent, on the river Stour at the influx of the Lesser Stour, 1½ mile E by S of Grove Ferry station on the S.E.R., and 5 miles NW of Sandwich. It has a post office under Dover; money order office, Wingham; telegraph office, Grove Ferry railway station. Acreage, 901; population, 330. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is ancient.
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 | Stourmouth All Saints | |
| Hundred | Bleangate | |
| Lathe | St. Augustine | |
| Poor Law union | Eastry |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stourmouth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stourmouth (All Saints))
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.