Wootton, Kent
Historical Description
Wootton, a parish in Kent, 2½ miles WSW of Shepherds Well station on the L.C. & D.R., and 8 NW of Dover. It has a post office under Canterbury; money order and telegraph office, Shepherds Well. Acreage, 1028; population, 181. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £120 with residence. The church is Early English, and has been well restored. Wootton Court is the chief residence, and a portion of it is supposed to have been built in the reign of King John.
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 | Wootton St. Martin | |
Hundred | Kinghamford | |
Lathe | St. Augustine | |
Poor Law union | Dover |
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 Wootton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wootton (St. Martin))
Maps
Online maps of Wootton 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.