Woodnesborough, Kent

Historical Description

Woodnesborough or Winsborough, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 1½ mile SW of Sandwich station on the S.E.R., is believed to occupy the site of a Roman settlement, and has a post office under Dover; telegraph office, Sandwich. The parish includes several villages and comprises 2940 acres; population, 921. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Roman remains have been found near Statenborough, and many Saxon antiquities on Woodnesborough Hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £225 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. There is a small Congregational chapel.

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 Woodnesborough from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Woodnesborough 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.