West Langdon, Kent

Historical Description

Langdon, West, a parish in Kent, 1½ mile W of Martin Mill station on the Dean and Dover railway, and 4 miles N of Dover. Post town, Dover. Acreage, 705; population of the civil parish, 97; of the ecclesiastical, 572. A White canonry was founded here in 1192 by William de Auberville, went at the dissolution to the Archbishop of Canterbury in exchange for other property, and has left a few ivy-covered walls. Langdon Abbey was a place of some importance, and at the time of the dissolution there resided in it ten canons. It was the first abbey that Henry VIII. confiscated. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarages of Whitfield and Waldershare, in the diocese of Canterbury. The church was rebuilt in 1869.

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 West Langdon from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of West Langdon 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.