Upchurch Kent Family History Guide
Upchurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1633
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1560
Nonconformists include:
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Rainham
- Hoo St Werburgh
- Newington next Sittingbourne
- Stoke
- Grain
- Minster in Sheppey
- Hartlip
- Lower Halstow
- Iwade
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
UPCHURCH, a parish, with a village, in Milton district, Kent; on the creeks of the Medway, 1¾ mile N of Newington r. station, and 5 E of Chatham. It has a wall letter-box under Sittingbourne.
Acres, 5,138; of which 1,520 are water. Real property, £5,564. Pop., 468. Houses, 99. The property is divided among a few. Low islets and peninsulæ, engirt by creeks, form much of the surface; bear the name of salterns or saltings; appear to have been the site of an extensive Roman pottery manufacture; and have yielded many pieces of Roman pottery and many Roman coins. There are also extensive gravel pits, abounding with fossils.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £243. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church is chiefly decorated English; and has a spire, which serves as a landmark. Charities, £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- Civil Registration District: Milton
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
- Diocese: Canterbury
- Rural Deanery: Sittingbourne
- Poor Law Union: Milton
- Hundred: Milton
- Province: Canterbury