Stansted, Kent

Location

Stansted is an ancient parish, in the hundred of Wrotham. It sits on the North Downs in the north west of the County of Kent. It is approximately nine miles south of Gravesend and Sevenoaks is about the same distance to the south-west. The county town of Maidstone is about twelve miles to the east south east.

For additional information please see The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 by Edward Hasted (pub 1798) (accessed April 2016).

Parish Church

The Parish (CofE) Church is St Mary, Stansted, which can be found here on Google Street View

Parish Registers

The surviving parish registers are held at the Kent History and Library Centre. See Kent History and Library Centre: Parish Registers

Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes

To the east of Stansted lie the parishes of Meopham and Trottiscliffe. To the south is Platt and Wrotham. To the west, north and north-east is Ash also known as Ash-next-Ridley.

Gleanings from

• Stansted Census Returns
  • 1851 Census Stansted