Ulcombe, Kent
Historical Description
Ulcombe, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 3 miles from Harrietsham station on the L.C. & D.R., and 6 NE of Staplehurst. It has a post office under Staplehurst; money order and telegraph office, Sutton Valence. Acreage, 3520; population, 591. The manor, with Ulcombe Place, belongs to the Marquis of Ormonde. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £380 with residence. The church is Early and Decorated English, includes a chapel founded by the St Leger family, was once collegiate, and was restored in 1870, when some frescoes of the 14th century were discovered on the S arcade of the nave.
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 | Ulcombe All Saints | |
Hundred | Eyhorne | |
Lathe | Aylesford | |
Poor Law union | Hollingbourne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ulcombe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ulcombe (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Ulcombe 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.