Sutton at Hone, Kent

Historical Description

Sutton-at-Hone, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands on the river Darent, with a station on the L.C. & D.R., 21 miles from London, and 2½ SSE of Dartford. It has a post and money order office under Dartford; telegraph office. South Darenth. The parish contains also Swanley and Hawley hamlets. Acreage, 3625; population of the civil parish, 3847; of the ecclesiastical, 1384. The manor of St John of Jerusalem was given, in the time of Richard I., by R. Basing to the Knights Hospitallers. There are orchards, hop gardens, and paper mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £400 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is chiefly Decorated English, and has been restored. The vicarage of Swanley is a separate benefice. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels and four almshouses.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sutton at Hone from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sutton-At-Hone (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Sutton at Hone 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.