Chelsfield

Chelsfield is a parish, with a village, 6-1/2 miles southeast of Bromley.  Real property, £4,710.  Population in 1861, 784.  The property is divided among a few.

The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Farnborough, in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £876 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, All Souls College, Oxford.  The church is early English.  There are charities of £23. ¹

As of 1831 there was a chapel of ease for this parish built at Farnborough. ²

All Souls Church at Pratt's Bottom was built in 1890 as a mission church to St. Martin of Tours, Chelsfield.

Well Hill Mission Church was built in 1890 as one of a number of mission churches for hop pickers in the Darenth Valley. Now a daughter church of St. Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield.

Grinstead Green or Greenstreet Green is a hamlet partly in this parish and partly in Chelsfield, distant 1 mile south-by-east from Farnborough. Here is a national school, supported by voluntary subscription. ³

Skidhill is 1-1/2 miles north-east; Parkgate 2 miles north-east; Green Street Green 1-1/2 miles west; Pax, a quarter of a mile south; World's End three quarters of a mile south-west; Well Hill, Bopeep and Hewitt, a quarter of a mile south-est; Spratt's or Pratt's Bottom, 1 mile south-west; Cockerice, 1-1/2 miles south-east. Goddington is a farm. ³

¹  John Marius Wilson, comp.  The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

²  Samuel Lewis, comp.  A topographical dictionary of England..., in four volumes, Vol. 1. (London, England: S. Lewis and Co., 87, Aldersgate-Street, 1831).

³Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex, 1855, in two parts, Part 1: Counties & Localities, pp. 304, 343. (London, England: Kelly and Co., 19, 20, 21 Old Boswell Court, Temple Bar, 1855).

Chelsfield 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.]

• General references to Chelsfield: vol. 12, p. 237;  vol. 14, p. 145;  vol. 20, p. 14;  vol. 21, p. 207;  vol. 22, p. 295;  vol. 23, pp. 72, 142;  vol. 24, p. 147;  vol. 53, p. 54;  vol. 59, pp. 7, 10, 14-15
• barony of vol. 125, p. 369
• Chacotte Fm. and Lamphawe vol. 59, p. 15;
• chapel vol. 119, p. 294
• church vol. 119, p. 293;  vol. 124, pp. 51, 52, 56
• Church restoration vol. 71, p. 238
• Church, methodist, records vol. 101, p. 317; vol. 105, p. 277
• Court Lodge vol. 59, p. 8
• deeds vol. 101, p. 329
• fines of lands in vol. 1, pp. 254-6; vol. 5, pp. 289-290; vol. 11, pp. 324, 333, 340; vol. 13, pp. 292; 14, 246
• Green vol. 59, p. 16
• inventory of parish church goods vol. 8, p. 130
• leaf point vol. 94, p. 283;   vol. 95, pp. 286-288
• manor vol. 10, p. 157;  vol. 102, p. 8
• market vol. 117, pp. 91, 96, 101
• royalist rising vol. 110, p. 2
• theft C16 vol. 112, p. 249

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', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Edward I. Published:(1906).  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Edward II. Published:(1910).  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Edward III. Published:(1938).  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry III. Published:(1904).  URL: British History Online.

Kirby, J. L., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry IV. Published:(1992).  URL: British History Online.

Kirby, J. L., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry V', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry V. Published:(1995).  URL: British History Online.

Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and A. C. Wood, ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry VII. Published:(1955).  URL: British History Online.

M. C. B. Dawes, H. C. Johnson, M. M. Condon, C. A. Cook and H. E. Jones, ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Richard II. Published:(1988).  URL: British History Online.

Location of Records

The 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.

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