Swalecliffe Kent Family History Guide
Swalecliffe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
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Adjacent Parishes
- Herne Bay Christ Church
- Herne
- Whitstable
- Hackington
- Blean
- Dunkirk
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SWALECLIFF, a parish in Blean district, Kent; on the coast, 2 miles E by N of Whitstable r. station. Post town, Whitstable, under Canterbury.
Acres, 1,297; of which 335 are water. Real property, £1,754. Pop., 168. Houses, 32. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £315. Patron, Earl Cowper.
There are a slightly endowed school, and a coastguard station.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- Civil Registration District: Blean
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
- Diocese: Canterbury
- Rural Deanery: Westbere
- Poor Law Union: Blean
- Hundred: Bleangate
- Province: Canterbury