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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Mint from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "MINT, an extra-parochial tract in Bridge [registration] district, Kent. Population: 85. Houses: 24."
Mint was only a civil parish between 1858 and 1889. At the latter year it was absorbed either into the civil parish of Canterbury or into Harbledown. It was never a separate parish within a rural district. Before 1858 it was an extraparochial area.(Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)
There is very little information about Mint in the usual references. A Google search directed the writer to a number of sites describing The Mint Yard Gate of the Kings School, Canterbury, but the map in A Vision of Britain through Time infers that it is somewhat further out of town in the vicinity of Harbledown.
The coordinates given are taken from Google Earth and are those for a pub named "The Mint" in the middle of Harbledown. The area between Harbledown and Canterbury itself is now mostly covered with housing and a large industrial estate.
Research Tips
- Kent County Council Archive, Local Studies and Museums Service. James Whatman Way, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LQ. This incorporates the Centre for Kentish Studies in Maidstone and the East Kent Archives Centre near Dover.
- Canterbury Cathedral Archives see the Archives web pages on the Canterbury Catherdral site.
- For information on the area around the Medway Towns, have a look at Medway Council's CityArk site.
- Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales - Revised: Kent illustrates the parish boundaries of Kent when rural districts were still in existence and before Greater London came into being. The map publication year is 1931. An earlier map of 1900 may also be useful. The maps blow up to show all the parishes and many of the small villages and hamlets. Maps in this series are now downloadable for personal use.
- Census records for Kent are available on FamilySearch, Ancestry and FindMyPast. The first site is free; the other two are pay sites but have access to microfilmed images. Steve Archer produced a very useful round-up of the available sources, but this information may not be up to date.
- Registration Districts in Kent for the period 1837 to the present. By drilling down through the links you can follow any parish through the registration districts to which it was attached.
- England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911 The full database from Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, has been available online from FamilySearch since June 2016.
- Kent had five family history societies (now only four):
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- Volume 2 of the Victoria County History of Kent (published 1926) is available online through the auspices of British History Online. It includes accounts of the early history of Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals, and of several sites now within the conurbation of London.
- Volume 3 of the Victoria County History of Kent (published 1932) This includes the text of, and the index to, the Kent Domesday survey. It has been provided by the Kent Archaeological Society.
- In place of the other volumes of the Victoria County History, British History Online has transcriptions of the numerous volumes of The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent by Edward Hasted (originally published 1797)
- English Jurisdictions 1851, a parish finding aid provided by FamilySearch, is particularly helpful in locating parishes in large ancient towns and cities like Canterbury.
- Kent Probate Records Numerous links provided by Maureen Rawson
- GENUKI lists other possible sources, however, it does not serve Kent so well as it does some other counties.
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