Waltham, Kent

Historical Description

Waltham, a parish, with Waltham village and Handville Green hamlet, in Kent, 4 miles from Chilham station on the S.E.R., and 7 SSW of Canterbury. It has a post office under Canterbury; money order office, Petham; telegraph office, Wye. Acreage, 3235; population of the civil parish, 452; of the ecclesiastical, 1083. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage, united with Petham, in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £580 with residence in Pelham. The church is Early English and good. There is a 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 Waltham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Waltham 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.