Wittersham, Kent

Historical Description

Wittersham, a parish, with a village, in Kent, 4½ miles NNW of Rye station on the S.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 3625; population, 803. A fair is held on 12 May. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £375 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is a handsome building of stone in the Decorated style, with an embattled tower, and is a conspicuous landmark. Dr Beilby Porteous, Bishop of London, was once rector. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and charities.

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 Wittersham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Wittersham 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.