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East FarleighEast Farleigh is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Maidstone and in the deanery of Shoreham. The church is named for St. Mary with original parish registers commencing 1580. East Farleigh, a village and a parish in Maidstone district, Kent. The village stands on the river Medway, adjacent to the Maidstone branch of the Mid Kent railway, 2 miles SW of Maidstone; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Maidstone. The parish comprises 2,023 acres. Real property £7,138. Population 1,559. Houses, 311. The manor belonged at Domesday to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and belongs now to the Crown. Hops of prime quality, are extensively grown. A quondam hop-grower here, called James Ellis, began life in a humble way, and left such a wealth of hop farms at this death, that the poles alone were said to be worth £70,000. A picturesque ancient bridge, with ribbed arches here spans the Medway. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £1,000, with a habitable glebe house. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has some traces of Norman, but is chiefly late decorated English; and has a handsome spire. There stand within the parish Union Workhouse schools. Source: John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). East Farleigh Bibliography-- various. 'Archaeologia Cantiana'. Publisher: Kent, England: Kent Archaeological Society, various dates. [Note: The following volumes can be found on archive.org: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1876), 11, 12, 13 (1880), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, vol. 1907 supplement.]
Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II, Vol. 1. 1307-1313'Each volume has own index. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids : with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, A. D. 1284-1431', Vol. 3. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Great Britain, Exchequer. 'The book of fees commonly called testa de nevill, pt. 3'. The Book of fees contains information about the holdings of feudal tenants. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Hall, Hubert, 1857-1944. 'The Red book of the Exchequer - Liber rubeus de Scaccario, Vol. 3'. The Red book of the Exchequer was a register intended to preserve important documents comprising charters, statutes of the realm, public acts (Placita), private deeds and ordinances, correspondence. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Glencross, Reginald Morshead. 'Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. 1. 1559-1571'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Hasted, Edward. 'The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent; Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical; collected from public records, and other authorities: illustrated with maps, views, antiquities, etc. The second edition, improved, corrected, and continued to the present time'. 12 volumes. Publisher: Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow, 1797-1801. URL: British History Online Hussey, Arthur. 'Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date'. Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852). Letters, Dr. Samantha. 'Kent', Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (2005). URL: British History Online. Page, William, 1861-1934, ed.. 'The Victoria history of the county of Kent'. Publisher: London: Constable (1908). URL: British History Online Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 39', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 2: Edward I. Published:(1906), pp. 315-323. URL: British History Online. Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 45', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 1: Henry III. Published:(1904), pp. 296-302. URL: British History Online. Location of RecordsThe following list of records is not intended to be exhaustive. There are many records that are awaiting discovery in archive offices throughout Kent and England. This list is intended only to set out those records that are available via at least two relatively easy-to-access avenues. If you have used or discover a record that would be of benefit to other researchers, that is not on this list, please send me an email with the details of the archive - name, address and archival call number. Census
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1801 - 642
1811 - 775
1821 - 1,143
1831 - 1,461
1841 - 1,377
1851 - 1,401
1861 - 1,559
1871 - 1,625
1881 - 1,668
1891 - 1,650
1901 - 1,594
1911 - 1,554
1921 - 1,564
The parish was effected by the operation of the Divided Parishes Acts, but the Registrar-General failed to obtain particulars of every such change. The changes which escaped notification were, however, probably small in area and with little, if any, population. Considerable difficulty was experienced both in 1891 and 1901 in tracing the results of changes effected in civil parishes under the provisions of these Acts; by the Registrar-General’s courtesy, however, reference has been permitted to certain records of formerly detached parts of parishes, which has made it possible approximately to ascertain the population in 192! of parishes as constituted prior to such alterations, though the figures in many instances must be regarded as partly estimates.
London 30.3 mi.
Canterbury 25.6 mi.
Ashford 18.1 mi.
Chatham 7.7 mi.
Cranbrook 10.8 mi.
Dartford 18.0 mi.
Deptford 27.4 mi.
Dover 36.8 mi.
Faversham 18.1 mi.
Folkestone 31.6 mi.
Gravesend 14.0 mi.
Greenwich 25.8 mi.
Hythe 29.2 mi.
Maidstone 2.2 mi.
Margate 39.9 mi.
Milton Regis 12.6 mi.
Queenborough 16.3 mi.
Ramsgate 40.9 mi.
Rochester 9.3 mi.
Sandwich 37.4 mi.
Sheerness 17.7 mi.
Tenterden 15.5 mi.
Tonbridge 9.7 mi.
Woolwich 24.7 mi.