Worth or Word, Kent

Historical Description

Worth or Word, a parish, with a small village and two hamlets, in Kent, on the coast, 1½ mile SSE of Sandwich station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Dover; money order and telegraph office, Sandwich. Acreage, 3925 of land and 1439 of water and foreshore; population, 511, There is a parish council consisting of five members. Upton House is the chief residence. There are two coastguard stations. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £235 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is a very ancient structure of flint in the Early English style, and has been restored.

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 Worth or Word from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Worth, or Word (St. Peter And St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Worth or Word 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.