Teston, Kent

Historical Description

Teston (popularly Teeson, " the town on the Tees," the upper course of the Medway being still called Tees), a parish in Kent, on the river Medway, 1½ mile NE of Wateringbury station on the S.E.R., and 4 miles SW by W of Maidstone. It has a post office under Maidstone; money order and telegraph office, Wateringbury. Acreage, 520; population, 329. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Barham Court was formerly'the seat of the Earl of Gainsborough. The remains of a Roman villa and a Roman cemetery were discovered while excavating in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; .gross value, £300 with residence. The church is cruciform, and has an octagonal spire. There is a working men's club and parish room.

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 Teston from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Teston (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Teston 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.