Yalding, Kent

Historical Description

Yalding, a village and a parish in Kent The village stands near the confluence of the rivers Medway, Beult, and Theyse, with a station on the S.E.R., 38 miles from London, and 5½ SW of Maidstone. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidstone. It was once a market-town, was desolated by the plague in 1510, 1603,1609, and 1666; is subject to inundation in wet seasons by the rivers, and enjoys advantages of navigation by barges on the Medway. The parish includes Collier Street hamlet. Acreage, 6358; population of the civil parish, 2595; of the ecclesiastical, 2407. Court Lodge, Down House, and Kenward are chief residences. Hops and fruit are largely grown. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £1168 with residence. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good. The vicarage of St Margaret, with a church at Collier Street, is a separate benefice of the gross value of £300 with residence. The church was restored in 1884. There are a Baptist chapel and an endowed grammar school.

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 Yalding from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yalding (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Yalding 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.