Ashurst is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.
Other places in the parish include: Englesford.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1692
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1716
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
- Withyham
- Speldhurst
- Penshurst
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASHURST, a parish in Tunbridge district, Kent; on the verge of the county, at the river Medway, 5 miles W of Tunbridge Wells r. station. Post town, Langton Green under Tunbridge Wells.
Acres, 891. Real property, £1,956. Pop., 247. Houses, 45. The property is divided among a few. Ashurst Park, the seat of G. Field, Esq., is in the east.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £207. Patron, Countess Delawarr. The church is tolerable.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Kent, Ashurst – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Speldhurst, Groombridge and Ashurst : burials, monumental inscriptions & Ashurst marriages & baptisms 1693-1851
Author: Tunbridge Wells Family History Society
England, Kent, Ashurst – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ashurst, 1851-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Kent, Ashurst – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census index – HO 107/1614 : Bidborough, Ashurst, Speldhurst and part of trhe Parish of Tonbridge, including Southborough; also includes most of Tunbridge Wells – those parts of the town within the parishes of Speldhurst and Tonbridge
Author: Copus, Matthew J.
England, Kent, Ashurst – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Ashurst, 1716-1899
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashurst (Kent); Kent Archives Office
Speldhurst, Groombridge and Ashurst : burials, monumental inscriptions & Ashurst marriages & baptisms 1693-1851
Author: Tunbridge Wells Family History Society
England, Kent, Ashurst – Manors ( 1 )
Manorial records, 1661-1820
Author: Manor of Ashurst. Court (Kent); Kent Archives Office
England, Kent, Ashurst – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Court papers, 1662-1820
Author: Manor of Ashurst. Court (Kent); Kent Archives Office
Court rolls deposited by the Rev. A.C. White, 1662-1871
Author: Manor of Ashurst. Court (Kent)
England, Kent, Ashurst – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Ashurst, 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Kent); Kent Archives Office
Administration
- Civil Registration District: Tunbridge
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester, Post-1844 – Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury
- Diocese: Pre-1845 – Rochester, Post-1844 – Canterbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1864 – Malling, Post-1863 – South Malling
- Poor Law Union: Tonbridge
- Hundred: Washlingstone
- Province: Canterbury
