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.

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.