Tunstall, Kent
Historical Description
Tunstall, a parish in Kent, 2 miles SSW of Sittingbourne station on the L.C. & D.R. Post town, Sittingbourne.. Acreage, 1200; population, 243. Gore Court is a preparatory school. Woodstock Park is the seat of the Twopeny family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury;. gross value, £400 with residence. The church is old but good, and contains some stained glass windows and monuments.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Kent | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Tunstall St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Milton | |
Lathe | Scray | |
Poor Law union | Milton |
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 Tunstall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tunstall (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Tunstall 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.