Sturry, Kent

Historical Description

Sturry, a parish in Kent, on the river Stour, with a station on the S.E.R., 73 miles from London, and 2½ NE of Canterbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Canterbury. Acreage, 3151; population, 1204. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor was given by Ethelbert to St Augustine's Abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is partly Norman, chiefly Later English, and all good. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Lord Greville is lord of the manor.

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 Sturry from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sturry 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.