Wateringbury, Kent

Historical Description

Wateringbury, a village and a parish in Kent. The village has a station on the S.E.R., 40 miles from London, and 5 WSW of Maidstone, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidstone. Acreage of the civil parish, 1376; population, 1324; of the ecclesiastical, 1347. The manor belongs to the Dowager Viscountess Falmouth. Wateringbury Place and Gracedieu are the chief residences. There are orchards, hop gardens, and two extensive breweries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £650 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is mainly Later English, with an Early English tower, contains memorials of the Style and Leney families, and was restored in 1884 and 1886.

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.

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 Wateringbury from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wateringbury (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Wateringbury 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.