Wormshill, Kent
Historical Description
Wormshill, a parish in Kent, 5 miles S by W of Sittingbourne, and 4 from Harrietsham station on the L.C. & D.R., with a post office under Sittingbourne; money order and telegraph office, Doddington. Acreage, 1475; population, 160. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £185 with residence. Patron, Christ's Hospital, London. The church is a plain building of flint in the Early English style, and was thoroughly restored in 1879.
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 | Wormshill St. Giles | |
Hundred | Eyhorne | |
Lathe | Aylesford | |
Poor Law union | Hollingbourne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wormshill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wormshill (St. Giles))
Maps
Online maps of Wormshill 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.