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Sattelite image of St. Nicholas at Wade, Kent, England
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 1881 Ordnance survey map of St. Nicholas at Wade with link to modern ordnance survey map
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Statistical Summary

Acres:  3,440 of land plus 220 of water
OS co-ordinates:  TR264666
Latitude:  51:21.2470N
Longitude:  1:15.0884E

Parish Church:  St. Nicholas
Registers commence:
  1653 original parish registers
Other Denominations:
  Wesleyan chapel
Markets:
  Monday - St. Nicholas at Wade
  Wednesday - Ramsgate
  Thursday - Sarre
  Friday - Minster
  Saturday - Monkton, Margate &
  Ramsgate
Fairs:
  Palm Monday - Minster
  30 May - Acol
  13 July - Minster
  22 July - Monkton
  10 Aug - St. Lawrence
  8 Sep - St. Nicholas at Wade
  14 Oct - Sarre
Newspapers:  weekly at Ramsgate
Electoral Place:  Ramsgate
Courts:
  Petty Sessions and County Courts -
  Margate and Ramsgate
Jails:  at St. Clement's, Sandwich

Hospitals:
  Royal National at Westgate
Amenities:
  Post office under Margate

Registration District:  Thanet
Poor Law Union:  Thanet 1835-1930
Workhouse:  Minster, Thanet Diocese:  Canterbury
Archdeaconry:  Canterbury
Deanery:  Westbere
Probate:
   pre-1859 - Archdeaconry Court of        Canterbury
   post-1858 - Principal Probate Registry
Lathe:  St. Augustine
Hundred:  Ringslow
Houses:  129.1
Parishes within 6 mile radius:
  Acol, Ash (Sandwich), Birchington Chislet, Elmstone, Margate, Minster in Thanet, Monkton, Preston (Ash and Wingham), St. Nicholas at Wade, Reculver, Sandwich (Sts Clement, Mary and Peter), Sarre, Stonar, Stourmouth, Thanet St Lawrence, Thanet St. Peter 		Greenwood map of StNic as it existed in 1821
Greenwood's Map of 1821. Click map for larger image.


Domesday Reference:
   None

Principal landholder:
   None

St. Nicholas at Wade

St. Nicholas at Wade, a village and a parish in Thanet district, Kent.  The village stands on comparatively high ground, overlooking the marshes of the Stour, 3 miles northeast of Grove Ferry rail station, and 6-1/2 miles west-south-west of Margate;  and has a post office under Margate.  The parish extends to the coast;  measures about 4 miles from east to west, and 2-1/2 miles from north to south;  and comprises 3,440 acres of land, and 220 of water.  Real property in 1860, £8,222.  Population in 1861, 590.  Houses, 129.  The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value £176 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church was originally a chapel of ease to Reculver;  was transferred to the monks of Christchurch, Canterbury, and was rebuilt by them;  is partly Norman, partly early English, partly decorated English, with interesting features;  comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a porch and a lofty tower;  and was restored in 1863.

The civil parish of the same name at the 1921 census was coextensive with the ecclesiastical parish.3

Churches

There is also a Wesleyan chapel.1

Schools

There is a national school.1

Charities

Charities to the value of £94.1

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

2Edward Hasted, ed. and comp.  The town and parish of St. Nicholas at Wade: Town and manors, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 260-307.

3William Page, 1861-1934, ed.  The Victoria County History of Kent, vol. 3, p. 360.(London, England: The St. Catherine Press, Stamford Street, Waterloo, S.E., 1932).

 

Bibliography

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Location of Records

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Chronology

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Church Registers




Census

  • 1801-1831

  • 1841

  • 1851

  • 1861

  • 1871

  • 1881

  • 1891

  • 1901

Parish Chest
Records

  • Settlement Certificates
  • Removal Orders
  • Bastardy Examinations
  • Parish-assisted Immigrants
  • Churchwarden's Accounts
  • Overseer's Accounts
  • Surveyor's Accounts
  • Workhouse Records
  • Pew Rents
  • Donors' Rolls
  • Vestry Minutes
  • Bishops' Visitations
  • Parish Magazines
  • Parish Histories

Total Population3

1801   -   520
1811   -   480
1821   -   590
1831   -   726
1841   -   679
1851   -   604
1861   -   590
1871   -   546
1881   -   582
1891   -   548
1901   -   510
1911   -   495
1921   -   538


St. Nicholas at Wade Distance to

London 59.2 mi.
Canterbury 9.3 mi.
Ashford 22.0 mi.
Bromley 53.4 mi.
Chatham 31.1 mi.
Cranbrook 35.7 mi.
Dartford 46.2 mi.
Deptford 56.3 mi.
Dover 15.8 mi.
Faversham 15.8 mi.
Folkestone 18.9 mi.
Gravesend 38.2 mi.
Greenwich 54.5 mi.
Hythe 20.8 mi.
Maidstone 31.8 mi.
Margate 6.1 mi.
Milton Regis 22.4 mi.
Queenborough 22.1 mi.
St. Nicholas at Wade 7.6 mi.
Rochester 33.6 mi.
Sandwich 6.6 mi.
Sheerness 22.4 mi.
Tenterden 31.3 mi.
Tunbridge Wells 45.4 mi.
Woolwich 52.2 mi.


Directories

Municipal & Public Records

  • Public Officials
  • Electoral Rolls

Wills & Estate Records

  • AD index 1448-1857
  • CC index 1448-1857
  • PCC 1338-1858
  • PPR 1858-1925
  • Depositions

Court Records

  • Quarter Sessions
  • Transportations
  • Tithe Apportionment c1830s
  • Protestation Rolls c1641-1643
  • Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy 1662
  • Oaths of Allegiance c1720s

Military Records

Land Records
& Maps


Tax Lists

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


Other Records

  • Apprenticeships
  • Immigration
  • School Records
  • Notable Events
  • Nefarious Activities
  • Visitation, 1612

Village Resources
 
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