West Peckham, Kent

Historical Description

Peckham, West, a parish in Kent, 3 miles W of Waterringbury station on the S.E.R., and 6 NW of Tonbridge. It has a post office under Maidstone; money order and telegraph office, Hadlow. Acreage, 1581; population, 493. The parish council consists of five members and a chairman. Oxenhoath and Hamptons are the chief residences. A preceptory of Knights Hospitallers was founded here in 1408 by Sir John Colepeper, then proprietor of Oxenhoath. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £220 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is old but good, and consists of nave, aisle, chancel, and private chapel, with a tower.

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 Peckham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of West Peckham 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.