A View of the Parish

Sattelite image of Sarre, Kent, England
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1881 Ordnance survey map of Sarre with link to modern ordnance survey map
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Statistical Summary

Acres:  653
OS co-ordinates:  TR256650
Latitude:  51:20.3670N
Longitude:  1:14.3195E

Parish Church:  St. Nicholas at Wade
Registers commence:
  1653 original parish registers
Other Denominations:
  
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:  40.1
Parishes within 6 mile radius:
  Acol, Ash (Sandwich), Birchington Chislet, Elmstone, Margate, Minster in Thanet, Monkton, Preston (Ash and Wingham), Sarre, Reculver, Sandwich (Sts Clement, Mary and Peter), St. Nicholas at Wade, Stonar, Stourmouth, Thanet St Lawrence, Thanet St. Peter
Greenwood map of Sarre as it existed in 1805
Ordnance Survey, First Series Map circa 1805. Click map for larger image.


Domesday Reference:
   None

Principal landholder:
   None

Sarre

Sarre, a village and a ville in Thanet district, Kent.  The village stands on the river Stour, adjacent to the Ashford and Ramsgate railway, 2 miles NE of Grove-Ferry rail station, and 8 west-south-west of Margate; and has a post office under Margate, and a fair on 14 October.  The ville comprises 653 acres, and is a member of the Cinque Port liberty of Sandwich.  Real property, £1,787.  Population 169.  Houses, 40.1

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 Sarre: 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

Soon to be Added

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   -   169
1811   -   186
1821   -   191
1831   -   200
1841   -   215
1851   -   194
1861   -   169
1871   -   162
1881   -   184
1891   -   160
1901   -   160
1911   -   135
1921   -   147


Sarre Distance to

London 58.8 mi.
Canterbury 8.1 mi.
Ashford 20.7 mi.
Bromley 52.9 mi.
Chatham 30.4 mi.
Cranbrook 34.5 mi.
Dartford 45.7 mi.
Deptford 55.9 mi.
Dover 14.8 mi.
Faversham 15.0 mi.
Folkestone 17.6 mi.
Gravesend 37.8 mi.
Greenwich 54.0 mi.
Hythe 19.5 mi.
Maidstone 30.9 mi.
Margate 7.2 mi.
Milton Regis 21.7 mi.
Queenborough 21.7 mi.
Sarre 8.1 mi.
Rochester 33.0 mi.
St. Peter's 4.2 mi.
Sandwich 6.2 mi.
Sheerness 22.2 mi.
Tenterden mi.
Tunbridge Wells 44.4 mi.
Woolwich 51.8 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

  • Parish Map
  • Hasted's History
  • Victoria County History (Sarre)
  • Deeds, Mortgages, etc.
  • Rated Property Returns
  • Returns of owners of land, 1873
  • Manor Court Baron
  • Manor Tenancy Rolls
  • Manors, Castles & Holdings of Significance

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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