West Cliffe, Kent

Historical Description

Cliffe, West, a parish in Kent, on the coast, 2½ miles NE by N of Dover station on the L.C. & D.R. and S.E.R. Post town, Dover; money order and telegraph office, St Margaret-at-Cliffe. Acreage, 1180; population of the civil parish, 144; of the ecclesiastical, 972. The living is a vicarage, annexed to St Margaret-at-Cliffe, in the diocese of Canterbury; joint net yearly value, £238. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was restored in 1874.

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.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1576; burials, 1570.

Churches

Church of England

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 West Cliffe from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cliffe, West (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of West Cliffe 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.