Stonar Kent Family History Guide
Stonar is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Augustine
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
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Adjacent Parishes
- Ash
- Minster
- Sandwich St Peter
- Sandwich St Clement
- Worth
- Woodnesborough
- Sandwich St Mary
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STONAR, a quondam town and a parish in Thanet district, Kent. The town stood on the river Stonr, 1 mile NNE of Sandwich; is supposed to have been the Lapis Titnli of the Romans; was the place of Louis the Dauphin’s debarkation in 1216, and of Edward III.’s embarkation in 1359; was destroyed by the French in 1385; figured as a member of Sandwich in 1773; and is now represented by only a farm house.
The parish comprises 670 acres. Post town, Sandwich. Real property, £1,546. Pop., 42. Houses, 8.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Crown, by lapse. There is no church.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STONAR (St. Augustine), a parish, in the union of the Isle of Thanet, hundred of Ringslow, or Isle of Thanet, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, ¾ of a mile (N. by E.) from Sandwich; containing 52 inhabitants.
It is supposed that the site of this place, in the time of the Romans, was entirely covered with water. On the sea retiring from Ebbs-fleet, at an early period, Stonar became a common landing-place, and, in consequence, a town of considerable importance; in 1090 it had so increased, that the seignory was claimed by the citizens of London as subject to that port.
But after sustaining repeated injuries from the Danes and other marauders, as well as from inundations of the sea, it began about the reign of Richard II. to decay; and Leland, who wrote in the time of Henry VIII., describes it as ” sometime a pretty town,” but then “having only the ruin of the church, which some people call Old Sandwich.”
The parish comprises 700 acres. Salt-works are carried on, the produce of which serves all the purposes of bay-salt.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £3. 6. 8.; but no presentation has lately been made.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- Civil Registration District: Thanet
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
- Diocese: Canterbury
- Rural Deanery: Sandwich
- Poor Law Union: Thanet
- Hundred: Ringslow or Isle of Thanet
- Province: Canterbury