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History Index

Links to articles on Hartley's history are set out under general subject headings below.

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Subjects: Church, Courts and Justice, General, Government, Land and Buildings, Organisations and Work, People, Wills and Documents

Church

Rectors & Churchwardens 1287 to date
Churchwardens' Accounts 1745-1817
Monumental Inscriptions 1748 - 1888**
Picture of Church 1806**
Church Improvements 1860-1954**

Ecclesiastical Census Dartford area 1851
Description 1863
Miscellaneous documents 1115 - 1826

Tithes (including maps and schedules 1844, 1936)

Courts & Justice

Monte Canisio v Blundum & ors 1232
Assize Court Records 1288 - 1325
Chancery Court Cases 1529-1702
William Lovegrove Transportation 1791
George Mills Transportation 1801

General

Bancks - Hartley Through the Ages (whole book, 1927)

Battle of Hartley 1554
Elections and constituencies
Geology of Hartley
Hartley & Longfield New Town 1944
Hartley Parish Magazine 1923-38
Old Clubs and Societies
The Prize Fight at Longfield 1866 (added 5.12.18)

Government

Dartford Rural District Council Minutes 1899-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949
George Palmer Evelyn, lord of the manor
Jane Foote Maxton, last known lord of the manor

Longfield Parish Council, extracts of minutes 1898-1953
Transfer to Sevenoaks District, 1972

Land and Buildings

Feet of Fines (land transfers) 1311 - 1768

Manor Roll 1780 - 1836
Maps of Hartley 1769 - 2003
Payne and Trapps (Wellfield Estate etc) 1905
Valuation Office Survey 1910

Woodland Survey `1949

Small Owners Limited; Sales by 1912-28

The Prize House 1912 (Johns, Johns Close)
The Old Houses of Hartley
Hartley - place names
Planning Applications 1921-date

Newspaper Stories
1700		1700-1799
1800		1800-1849
1850		1850-1859,1860-1869, 1870-1879, 1880-1889, 1890-1899
1900		1900-1909, 1910-1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918-1919, 1920-1924, 1925-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1941, 1941-1942, 1943-1944, 1945-1949
1950		1950-1959, 1970-1979

Organisations & Work

Buses, Taxis and Carriers

Clubs and Organisations

Farming
Fire Brigade

Hearts of Oak Oddfellows Lodge (added 22.9.21)
Longfield & Ash Green Telephone Exchanges
Postal Services
Railways
Roads and Cars

Schools
Water and Sewerage

People

Census 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911
Population of Hartley since 1086
Taxpayers 1373 - 1666
Baptisms, marriages & burials 1712 - 1923

Register of population 1939
Monumental Inscriptions 1748 - 1888**
Directories 1847 - 1915
Poll Books 1790 - 1859
Emigration 1830 - 1913

Electoral Registers 1884 - 1913

Wills and Documents

Index to over 100 wills (1450-1950)

Newspaper Stories 1700-1800 1801-1850 1851-1869, 1870-1879, 1880-1889, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, 1950-1959, 1970-1979
Hundred Rolls 1279
Description of Hartley Manor 1392

World Wars 1 & 2

The Appleton Brothers of Fairby Lane (by Andrew Marshall)

Hartley and District in World War 1

A Postcard from Hartley (Belgian refugees in WW1)

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