| Capel |
| This little parish is situated opposite to Hadlow, on the other or southern side of the river Medway, about a mile from it, it lies obscurely in a woody country, and is but little known or frequented, the surface of it is very low and flat, except in the middle of it, where there is a small rise, on which the church stands; here the foil is sand and stone, but in the rest of the parish it is a deep miry clay, the hedge rows broad, and filled with large and spreading oaks, which makes it exceeding gloomy. It is a wet place, full of ponds, and watered besides by two small streams, on the east and west sides of the parish, which runs from hence into the Medway; towards the South it joins to the Southfrith woods and the parish of Pembury. extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1798 |
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| 549 | Births | 3 | 54 | 126 | 232 | 129 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 15 | Christenings | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Marriages | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Deaths | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | Burials | |||||||||||||||||||
| Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1798 | The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume V by Edward Hasted ⇒ p. 193 |
| 1814 | An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent by T. D. W. Dearn ⇒ p. 56 |
| 1839 | Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex ⇒ entry |
| 1874 | A History of The Weald of Kent with an outline of the History of the County to the present time, Volume II by Robert Furley, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 12; p. 22; p. 705 |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1914 | Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson ⇒ p. 325 |
| Places and properties in Capel - a directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period |
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