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Note: There are New Items on this Page - February 2008
- Time Line for the Parish and its surroundings - from prehistoric mounds to modern carbuncles with a few family names thrown in over the ages.
- “A Saunter Through Kent”, Volume 22, 1928. Written by Charles Igglesden, illustrated by X.Willis (illustrations not replicated here). An extensive article on the Parish.
- Slices in Time: - Updated (Feb 06): Census data (Numbers of houses and people) since 1801
- Beating the Bounds: The Story Behind the Tradition - compiled by Bob Baxter in support of the 7th September 2003 Marking the Boundary Walk; followed up with planting of holly trees on 29th February 2004
- Listed Buildings in Lynsted Parish, and some listed walls and a ha-ha. Kingsdown Lists have yet to be added here
- The Dating of Timber Houses in the Weald of Kent - by the late Halford L. Mills (Archaeologia Cantiana, 1932)
- Tudor Cottage Published Article and Illustrations - written by the present owner, Bob Baxter
- The Roper monuments in Lynsted Church (with insights into 16th Century Catholicism, locations associated with this historically important family)
- English weights and measures for those older references and cookery books!
- UPDATED: Lynsted Memorial - World War I (1914 - 1918).
- Memorials and Tablets - Lynsted Church of Ss Peter and Paul
- Hatchments in Lynsted Church illustrated and documented. Flow diagram.
- Poster of 1888 Concert in Lynsted Board Schools - first found by Mr Frank and Mrs Lorna Bristow and now in the trust of Ann Diamond. Does anyone know who the notable Ladies and Gentlemen were? Some thoughts on the people have been added.
- Crimes In Lynsted - 1593 to 1712 AD. Courtesy of Peter Stuart, a visitor to our Website.
- 1908-1909 Directory entries for Lynsted, Kingsdown and “Greenstreet” - also provided by Peter Stuart.
- 1871 Census Project. Starting with Family names found in the Parish. This project will grow over time but research will concentrate mostly on Greenstreet in due course.
- London Marriage Licences naming famous landowners in Lynsted from the 17th Century.(Peter Stuart)
- Universal British Directory - 1791 - Extracts mentioning Lynsted (Peter Stuart)
- Archeaological Finds during the dig of the new path in the grounds of Lynsted Church - coins, thimbles, a Victorian pencil holder, and brooch.
- An account of the finding of the Lynsted Ring - a medieaval gold ring now part of Canterbury Museum’s collection
- Hasted’s account (1788-1799) of Teynham Hundred including Teynham, Lynsted and Kingsdown
- Mileage Chart of 1701-22 for Kent
- Toll Wood Surveys.
1) October 2000, Plant List, with the kind permission of Richard Moyse;
2) February 2001, Site Visit by Barry O’Dowd, Elmley RSPB reserve.
- Anchor House - Aymer Vallance Study in 1942 with touching commentary on the damage arising from the bombing in August 1940
- The Kentish Ballad by Thomas Deloney - c.1600 (found in “The Glory of Kent” by John C Norwood - a celebration of all things Kentish) - just for fun.
- Detail from 1959 OS Map - notable for the alignment of the Motorway
- Detail from 1964 OS Map - notable for the arrival of the Motorway
- Stedlyn pre-development Archaeological dig Reports by Wessex Archaeology
- Map of Kingsdown revealing the Second World War Gunsite
- Deeds and Census Evidence for ownership and occupancy of The Grange, Greenstreet
- Hints on how to record Monumental Inscriptions - based on a project for recording Lynsted Churchyard inscriptions
- Lynsted school photograph of 1930 - can you help identify any of the children?
- NEW Feb 2008: Field Names (Greenstreet) of 1908 and 1930 - Map and Table of Names and Crops
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