West Wickham, Kent

Historical Description

Wickham, West, a parish, with a village, in Kent, with a station on the S.E.R., 12 miles from London, and 3 S by W of Bromley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Beckenham. Acreage, 2661; population, 1262. Wickham Court and Wickham Hall are the chief residences. The latter was much altered and extended in 1894, rendering it considerably more than double its former area. There are many neat villas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £155 with residence. The church is Late Perpendicular, with an embattled tower, and contains several monuments to the Hobbes and Lennard families. There are a Congregational chapel and a chapel of ease.

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 West Wickham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of West Wickham 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.