Snave Kent Family History Guide
Snave is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Augustine
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1619
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1563
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SNAVE, a parish in Romney-Marsh district, Kent; 2¾ miles E of Appledore r. station, and 5 NW of New Romney. Post town, New Romney, under Folkestone.
Acres, 1,494. Real property, £3,621. Pop., 97. Houses, 20. The property is much subdivided.
The living is annexed to Snargate. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SNAVE (St. Augustine), a parish, in the union and liberty of Romney-Marsh, though locally in the hundreds of Aloesbridge, Ham, and Newchurch, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 4½ miles (N. W. by N.) from New Romney; containing 91 inhabitants.
It comprises by estimation 1455 acres, of which 200 are arable.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £19. 7. 11., with the rectory of Snargate annexed; net income, £244; patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is a spacious edifice of stone, with a handsome tower.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Kent
- Civil Registration District: Romney Marsh
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
- Diocese: Canterbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1864 – Lympne, Post-1863 – South Lympne
- Poor Law Union: Romney Marsh
- Hundred: Romney Marsh Liberty
- Province: Canterbury