Tilmanstone, Kent

Historical Description

Tilmanstone, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 5 miles W by S of Deal, and 4 from Shepherds Well station on the L.C. & D.R. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Eythorne. Acreage, 1149; population, 365. The manor has belonged since the Saxon times to the Archbishops of Canterbury. Dane Court is the seat of the Eice family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, n£220 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is good, and was restored in 1884. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.

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 Tilmanstone from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Tilmanstone 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.