Teynham, Kent

Historical Description

Teynham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village, near a creek of the Swale, has a station on the L.C. & D.R., 49 miles from London and 3½ E by S of Sittingbourne, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sittingbourne. It was once a market-town, and gives the title of Baron to the family of Curzon. Acreage of parish, 2474; population, 1683. There is a parish council of nine members and a chairman. The manor was given by Kenulf, king of Mercia, to Christchurch, Canterbury, and belongs now to the Tyler family. A palace of the Archbishops of Canterbury was here. Hubert Walter, one of the archbishops of Canterbury, died at the palace in 1205, and was buried at Canterbury. All the cherry gardens and orchards of Kent are said to have been stocked with the Flemish cherry from a plantation of 105 acres in Teynham, made with foreign cherries, pippins, and golden rennets, done by the fruiterer of Henry VIII. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The church is Early English, cruciform, and good. There are a boatbuilding establishment and extensive cement works in the parish, and brick-making is carried on.

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 Teynham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Teynham 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.