Warehorne, Kent

Historical Description

Warehorne, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 1 mile SSW of Ham Street station on the S.E.R., and 7 miles S by W of Ashford. It has a post office under Ashford; money order and telegraph office, Ham Street. Acreage, 2928; population, 445. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £374 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church stands on a knoll overlookiag Romney Marsh, and is a building of stone and flint in the; Early English style. There is a Bible Christian 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 Warehorne from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Warehorne 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.