The Old Parish of Nonington
A small place in East Kent history
The Old Parish of Nonington in East Kent
The origins of the parish of Nonington.
Place Names.
The manors, hamlets, and settlements of Nonington
Gavelkind, a Kent custom-free socage tenure of land
The Ancient Manor of Oesewalum (also Oeswalum and Oseuualun)
The Will of Werhard the Priest-AD 830 [BCS 402]
East Stoole Farm in Esole.
Esole Farm, now White House Farm
Fredville and Esole: manors:-the Knight’s Fee of Essewelle.
The Knight’s Fee of Essewelle -from Domesday to the Barony of Say
The Knight’s Fee of Essewelle: the Manors of Esol and Freydevill’ under the Colkyns
Sir John de Beauchamp at Esole
The Esole dovecote
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, at Esole
The de Retlyngs at Esol
Sir John Harleston at Esol and Freydvill’
The Quadryng family at Esol, later Beauchamp’, and Fredeuyle
The Boys family at Fredville
Boys Marriage settlement of 1626.
From the Duke of Newcastle to the Plumptres of Fredville
The Trees of Fredville Park
Fredville Park gate keepers lodges
Fredville House School
Fredville Ghosts and Legends.
The Plumptre Hospital in Plumptre Square, Nottingham
The Holt Street Estate
1873 inquest on Barnett Samuel Wood, aged two
St. Alban’s Court, Nonington
Eswalt, later St. Alban’s Court: before the Domesday Survey of 1086
Eswalt: from Domesday to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
King Stephen’s Charter confirming the grant of Estwala
The Vill’ of Essesole-house plots and land holdings in 1501
The Hammonds of St. Alban’s Court
A PULHAM GARDEN REDISCOVERED IN NONINGTON, KENT by Peter Hobbs.
Archaeological finds at St. Alban’s Court
A brief history of Nonington College of Physical Education
The Manor of Wingham
Acol, or Ackholt
Aylesham
Curleswood Park: also Cruds Wood, Crudeswood, Old Park Parm.
Estriteling, later Old Court Farm
Kittington manor and farm
An inventory of the goods of Richard Creake, yeoman, of (Kettingden or Kittington) Nonington, Kent. 1560.
The fire at Kittington Farm in February of 1898
North and South Nonington manors
Oxenden also Oxney manor
The Manor of Retlyng, now Ratling near Aylesham
Solys now Soles Court
The Knights Templar and Knights of St. John
Monkton, now Gooseberry Hall
1839 and 1859 tithe maps
Old units of measurement & feudal dues and customs
St. Mary’s Church: historical notes.
The Light Lands and other bequests to the Church.
1912 “Brief Notes on Its Church and History” by the Rev. Sidney Sargent
St. Mary’ Church, Nonington, the 1938 guide and more.
St. Mary’s Church: Monumental inscriptions recorded in 1790
St. Mary’s Church: Monumental inscriptions recorded in 1892
St. Mary’s Church gallery
‘Le Parsonage’ and ‘Le Vicaredge’.
The Orphanage at the Nonington Vicarage
Rev. Frederick S. C. Chalmers
The Rev. Sir Algernon Coote, 1899 obituary
The Ale Houses of Nonington
The White Horse in Church Street
The Redd Lyon, later The Phoenix, Frogham
Assault on a Constable at the Phoenix, 1872
The Walnut Tree in Holt Street
The Royal Oak in The Drove in Lower Holt Street
Nonington’s Various Windmills
Akholte (Ackholt or Acol) windmill.
The Barson, or Barfreston, mills.
The Easole Corn Mill
The Easole Pug or Feed Mill.
John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd-some notes by L.E. Fox written in 1974 & 1979
Industry and Commerce
The Church Street and Frogham forges.
Richard Jarvis Arnold: Recollections of the life of the village fifty years ago [written in July 1936].
Nonington’s Shops.
Oasts and malt houses
Hammond, Plumptre, & Co., the Canterbury bank
John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd-some notes by L.E. Fox written in 1974 & 1979
The Brickfields
Nonington and the coming of the railways
The Baptist Chapel
Jane Austen’s visits to Nonington
Witchcraft in Nonington and nearby East Kent parishes.
Nonington In The Wars!
Nonington and the English Civil War
Nonington and The Kentish Rebellion and Second English Civil War of 1648
Nonington and The East Kent Volunteers
Nonington men who served in the Armed Forces during The Great War
The Nonington War Memorials.
Nonington during WW2 in pictures
Parish picture galleries
Easole Street gallery
Fredville House gallery
Holt Street gallery
St. Alban’s Court-the Old House gallery
St Alban’s Court-the new house gallery
Nonington during WW2 in pictures
Parish Miscelanea
The murder of George and Catharine Andrewes in 1677
1705 Nonington Boroughs Tax Roll
Nonington voters in the 1754 Parliamentary elections.
From the Parish Vestry Minutes.
Nonington Parish Meeting minutes from its inauguration in December 1894
The Ash Path
Beating the Nonington Parish Bounds in 1895
Health care in Nonington, 1898
Richard Jarvis Arnold: Recollections of the life of the village fifty years ago [written in July 1936].
The Church Lane Denehole
The Nonington Poor Houses in Church Street and Easole Street
Memories of the thatched cottages in Church Street kindly given to me by Mrs. Kath Smith, née Harrison.
Emigration of poor parishioners from Nonington to Adelaide, Australia in 1849.
Molly and Tommy Smith, cave-dwellers
Nonington Parish Charities
Nonington historical sources
Villare Cantianum: or, Kent surveyed and illustrated by Thos Philpott, 1659.
A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. By Richard Kilburne of Hawkhurst, Esquire. Published in 1659.
Nonington by William Hasted, published in 1800.
Nonington by W.H.Ireland, published in 1829
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The Old Parish of Nonington in East Kent
The origins of the parish of Nonington.
Place Names.
The manors, hamlets, and settlements of Nonington
Gavelkind, a Kent custom-free socage tenure of land
The Ancient Manor of Oesewalum (also Oeswalum and Oseuualun)
The Will of Werhard the Priest-AD 830 [BCS 402]
East Stoole Farm in Esole.
Esole Farm, now White House Farm
Fredville and Esole: manors:-the Knight’s Fee of Essewelle.
The Knight’s Fee of Essewelle -from Domesday to the Barony of Say
The Knight’s Fee of Essewelle: the Manors of Esol and Freydevill’ under the Colkyns
Sir John de Beauchamp at Esole
The Esole dovecote
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, at Esole
The de Retlyngs at Esol
Sir John Harleston at Esol and Freydvill’
The Quadryng family at Esol, later Beauchamp’, and Fredeuyle
The Boys family at Fredville
Boys Marriage settlement of 1626.
From the Duke of Newcastle to the Plumptres of Fredville
The Trees of Fredville Park
Fredville Park gate keepers lodges
Fredville House School
Fredville Ghosts and Legends.
The Plumptre Hospital in Plumptre Square, Nottingham
The Holt Street Estate
1873 inquest on Barnett Samuel Wood, aged two
St. Alban’s Court, Nonington
Eswalt, later St. Alban’s Court: before the Domesday Survey of 1086
Eswalt: from Domesday to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
King Stephen’s Charter confirming the grant of Estwala
The Vill’ of Essesole-house plots and land holdings in 1501
The Hammonds of St. Alban’s Court
A PULHAM GARDEN REDISCOVERED IN NONINGTON, KENT by Peter Hobbs.
Archaeological finds at St. Alban’s Court
A brief history of Nonington College of Physical Education
The Manor of Wingham
Acol, or Ackholt
Aylesham
Curleswood Park: also Cruds Wood, Crudeswood, Old Park Parm.
Estriteling, later Old Court Farm
Kittington manor and farm
An inventory of the goods of Richard Creake, yeoman, of (Kettingden or Kittington) Nonington, Kent. 1560.
The fire at Kittington Farm in February of 1898
North and South Nonington manors
Oxenden also Oxney manor
The Manor of Retlyng, now Ratling near Aylesham
Solys now Soles Court
The Knights Templar and Knights of St. John
Monkton, now Gooseberry Hall
1839 and 1859 tithe maps
Old units of measurement & feudal dues and customs
St. Mary’s Church: historical notes.
The Light Lands and other bequests to the Church.
1912 “Brief Notes on Its Church and History” by the Rev. Sidney Sargent
St. Mary’ Church, Nonington, the 1938 guide and more.
St. Mary’s Church: Monumental inscriptions recorded in 1790
St. Mary’s Church: Monumental inscriptions recorded in 1892
St. Mary’s Church gallery
‘Le Parsonage’ and ‘Le Vicaredge’.
The Orphanage at the Nonington Vicarage
Rev. Frederick S. C. Chalmers
The Rev. Sir Algernon Coote, 1899 obituary
The Ale Houses of Nonington
The White Horse in Church Street
The Redd Lyon, later The Phoenix, Frogham
Assault on a Constable at the Phoenix, 1872
The Walnut Tree in Holt Street
The Royal Oak in The Drove in Lower Holt Street
Nonington’s Various Windmills
Akholte (Ackholt or Acol) windmill.
The Barson, or Barfreston, mills.
The Easole Corn Mill
The Easole Pug or Feed Mill.
John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd-some notes by L.E. Fox written in 1974 & 1979
Industry and Commerce
The Church Street and Frogham forges.
Richard Jarvis Arnold: Recollections of the life of the village fifty years ago [written in July 1936].
Nonington’s Shops.
Oasts and malt houses
Hammond, Plumptre, & Co., the Canterbury bank
John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd-some notes by L.E. Fox written in 1974 & 1979
The Brickfields
Nonington and the coming of the railways
The Baptist Chapel
Jane Austen’s visits to Nonington
Witchcraft in Nonington and nearby East Kent parishes.
Nonington In The Wars!
Nonington and the English Civil War
Nonington and The Kentish Rebellion and Second English Civil War of 1648
Nonington and The East Kent Volunteers
Nonington men who served in the Armed Forces during The Great War
The Nonington War Memorials.
Nonington during WW2 in pictures
Parish picture galleries
Easole Street gallery
Fredville House gallery
Holt Street gallery
St. Alban’s Court-the Old House gallery
St Alban’s Court-the new house gallery
Nonington during WW2 in pictures
Parish Miscelanea
The murder of George and Catharine Andrewes in 1677
1705 Nonington Boroughs Tax Roll
Nonington voters in the 1754 Parliamentary elections.
From the Parish Vestry Minutes.
Nonington Parish Meeting minutes from its inauguration in December 1894
The Ash Path
Beating the Nonington Parish Bounds in 1895
Health care in Nonington, 1898
Richard Jarvis Arnold: Recollections of the life of the village fifty years ago [written in July 1936].
The Church Lane Denehole
The Nonington Poor Houses in Church Street and Easole Street
Memories of the thatched cottages in Church Street kindly given to me by Mrs. Kath Smith, née Harrison.
Emigration of poor parishioners from Nonington to Adelaide, Australia in 1849.
Molly and Tommy Smith, cave-dwellers
Nonington Parish Charities
Nonington historical sources
Villare Cantianum: or, Kent surveyed and illustrated by Thos Philpott, 1659.
A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. By Richard Kilburne of Hawkhurst, Esquire. Published in 1659.
Nonington by William Hasted, published in 1800.
Nonington by W.H.Ireland, published in 1829
Blog posts page
St Alban’s Court-the new house gallery
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