Wichling

Other current and historical names

Witchling
Wychling
Winchelesmere

Parish/Community: Wichling
District/Borough: Maidstone
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 51°16'23"N 0°45'15"E
Eastings/Northings: 592220, 156272
OS Grid: TQ922562
Mapcode Local: GBR RV5.5HZ
Mapcode Global: VHKK0.1849

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wichling within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wichling in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Witchling (or Wichling), par., Kent, Similes S. of Sittingbourne, 1316 ac., pop. 144.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wychling, Kent. See WITCHLING.

Wichling in the Domesday Book

A village in Eyhorne hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Wulfgeat
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hugh nephew of Herbert son of Ivo (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough (1 plough land)
- Woodland: 5 swine render
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Wichling, Kent

Wichling is a hamlet in Kent

Wichling in historic gazetteers

Wichling in the Domesday Book