Ash next Sandwich Parish

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Ash next Sandwich is in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Bridge.  The parish church is named for St. Nicholas with registers commencing 1558.

Ash next Sandwich is a village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent.  The village stands on a rising-ground, by the side of Wingham brook, a tributary of the Stour, 3 miles west of Sandwich rail station;  and has a post office of the name of Ash, under Sandwich, a money order office and a savings bank.  The parish comprises 6,871 acres.  Real property, £20,467.  Population in 1861, 2,039.  Houses, 438.

Richborough Castle, the Roman Rutuiæ, is on the east border, about a mile north of Sandwich.  One of the earliest settlements of the Saxons was in the parish;  and many relics of the earliest Saxon times have been found.  Hops are grown;  and pale ale is extensively brewed.

There are two livings, St. Nicholas and Trinity;  and both are vicarages in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £293 with a habitable glebe house, and £50, respectively.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  St. Nicholas church is cruciform, early English, and very fine;  is surmounted by a spired central tower, which serves as a landmark;  has undergone some good recent (as of 1861) restorations;  and contains two altar-tombs and some brasses.  The church of Trinity stands at Westmarsh, 2 miles distant;  and there is a neat Independent chapel.  A school has £90 from endowment;  and other charities have £47.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

The independent Ash Parish web site contains additional information.

• Monumental Inscriptions
• Christenings 1558-1640
• Christenings 1641-1700
• Christenings 1701-1775
• Christenings 1776-1900
• Marriages 1558-1640
• Marriages 1641-1700
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• Burials 1558-1640
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• 1861
  Sandwich Haven


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• AD index 1448-1857
• CC index 1448-1857
• PCC 1338-1858
• PPR 1858-1925
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• Protestation Rolls c1641-1643
• Oaths of Allegiance c1720s

• Poll Tax
• Hearth Tax
• Window Tax
• Hair Powder Tax
• Land Tax Assessments 1780-1831
• Land Tax Assessments 1799-1805

• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
• Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]

• Parish Map
• Deeds, Mortgages, etc.
• Rated Property Returns
• Returns of owners of land, 1873
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