Wickhambreux, Kent
Historical Description
Wickhambreux, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 2½ miles NE of Bekesbourne station on the L.C. & D.R., and 4½ E by N of Canterbury. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Littlebourne. Acreage, 2067; population of the civil parish, 499; of the ecclesiastical, 521. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £650 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, and has been restored. A Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1890.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Kent | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Wickhambreux St. Andrew | |
| Hundred | Downhamford | |
| Lathe | St. Augustine | |
| Poor Law union | Bridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wickhambreux from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wickhambreux (St. Andrew))
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.