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 Old Maps is a good place to start if you are looking for a place that doesn't appear to exist anymore. Place names alter over time and small villages get incorporated into nearby sprawling towns.

The other thing to bear in mind is that the spelling could be wrong ... and I don't just mean slightly misspelt! I'm still trying to track down a place in Yorkshire that looks as though it's called Bristok on an ancestor's marriage certificate! If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear from them!

You can find Ordnance Survey Maps in your local archive. Sittingbourne Library has a collection that covers the local area.

Bobbing Parish Council - Key Street

 

This is Milton Regis

The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Documents genealogical information from the Weald, including the villages and towns of: Ashdown Forest, Burwash, Buxted, Crowborough, East Grinstead, East Hoathly, Edenbridge, Eridge, Fletching, Forest Row, Frant, Framfield, Groombridge, Hartfield, Hever, Horsted Keynes, Isfield, Lamberhurst,, Little Horsted, Maresfield, Mayfield, Rotherfield, Sevenoaksk Speldhurst, Ticehurst, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Uckfield, Wadhurst, Waldron, Westerham, Withyham. Most of which is gleaned from Census returns and parish records.

 
 


 
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Ufton Lane School (0)
02.04.2012
Ufton Lane School (0)
This is the only photo that I have seen of the interior of my first school, Ufton Lane. I think that I have identified my father`s youngest brother, who must have died soon after the photo was taken. I recently visited the school and was allowed to see all...
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Does anyone recognise this funeral photograph? (2)
18.03.2012
Does anyone recognise this funeral photograph? (2)
Could this be the tail end of the funeral? The first photo is obviously Chalkwell Road and this one is looking West up Holleybank Hill. and toward Chalkwell. http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/bryn2/100_0682.jpg
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Alston family and Chalkwell Tannery (0)
16.03.2012
Alston family and Chalkwell Tannery (0)
I am researching the Alston family who owned the Chalkwell tannery through the 'first half' of the 19 century. Can you confirm that William Alston was the first Alston - he died 1833; then did his son William S Alston carry on the business, but died young? Do...
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Buggs' Field and Sittingbourne Street names (1)
16.03.2012
Buggs' Field and Sittingbourne Street names (1)
Thanks for your enquiry. I can help you with the location of Buggs Field, as I came across it last week whilst comparing the 1840 Tithe Map with the 1791 Yeakell Map! It’s strange how these things seem to work out! Below is an image from the 1791...
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Ufton Court/Ufton Manor/ Ufton Court Manor? (1)
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Ufton Court/Ufton Manor/ Ufton Court Manor? (1)
Three pictures of the elusive Ufton Court Farm, of which there appears to be nothing left. Accessed via a footpath known locally as `The Ashpath` or `Cinder Track` which began approximately at the junction of Ufton Lane/West Ridge. The first few yards are...
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NVAD Memorial in Public Room in Crescent Street (5)
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NVAD Memorial in Public Room in Crescent Street (5)
This link may be helpful! http://www.kentvad.org/
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Cement Industry (2)
28.06.2011
Cement Industry (2)
If it is of any interest, I have just discovered the route of the pipeline through which the slurry from Highsted Chalk Quarry was pumped to the Smeed Dean Brickfield and Cement Works at Murston. 'The slurry pipeline rises from the pit in the `tunnel`...
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" The Kings Yard ", Sittingbourne (1)
23.06.2011
" The Kings Yard ", Sittingbourne (1)
http://www.hrgs.co.uk/components/com_agora/img/members/2/mini_kings-yard.jpg I think I might have a definitive answer for you for this one - provided I've got the right time period, as you didn't mention what date your reference was from. That doesn’t...
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Sittingbourne Alms Houses (4)
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Sittingbourne Alms Houses (4)
From Archaeologia Cantiana vol. XLIII (1931) page 59 'To the Alms House next unto the Vyne, a pair of sheets and coverlet.' Will of Margery Smythson, 20 April 1508
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Sittingbourne Home Guard (1)
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