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| Name | Shepway Lathe |
| Alt names | Lympne | source: Wikipedia |
| Type | Former administrative division |
| Located in | Kent, England |
Lathes
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
The Lathe was an important administrative, judicial and taxation unit for 600 years after the time of the Domesday Book (1086). The functions of lathe and the hundred were somewhat similar, with a lathe covering a much wider area. Although not abolished, it has no administrative functions today. The Sheriff toured the county twice yearly attending on the lathes, in an agreed and permanent location in each lathe. The lathe was responsible for the raising of aids and subsidies for the Militia. It was also the basis for meetings of local justices of the peace in monthly or petty sessions. These were established on a regular footing at a particularly early date in Kent.
| :the following text is based on the section "History of Shepway" in an article in Wikipedia
Shepway Lathe was an ancient division of Kent, England and originated, probably in the 6th Century. It was originally named Lympne, but was called Shepway by the thirteenth century. Like the other Lathes it contained several hundreds.
The name Shepway was resurrected when the non-metropolitan District of Shepway was formed in 1974. This was a merger of the boroughs of Folkestone, Hythe, Lydd and New Romney plus the Rural Districts of Elham and Romney Marsh.
On the map, the Lathe is coloured in shades of brown or orange. The darkest areas are boroughs. Other hundreds vary in colour with population density (lightest being most thinly populated).
Hundreds of Shepway Lathe
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Each hundred was divided into parishes. The names of the hundreds were subject to change over time and there were alterations to the makeup of each hundred. As a result individual parishes may appear in more than on hundred. This list is from A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Administrative map of the ancient county of Kent in 1832 showing Lathes, Hundreds, Boroughs and the County of Itself of Canterbury.
Source data on parish boundaries - Kain, R.J.P., and Oliver, R.R. (2001) "Historic parishes of England and Wales: Electronic Map - Gazetteer - Metadata", Colchester: History Data Service. ISBN 0 9540032 0 9.
Source data for Boroughs: H.M.S.O. Boundary Commission Report 1832 (courtesy of A Vision of Britain through Time).
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license; Author: XrysD
There is no scale on the original map.
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Research Tips
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- 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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