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Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Rochester. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

• The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
• Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
• References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

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Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Rochester. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
CATHEDRAL CHURCH	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'.
E190533	Local Government District (MB)
MARGARET ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
NICHOLAS ST	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ROCHESTER	Ancient District (AD_City/Borough)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 634.
	Archdeaconry	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783.
	Archdeaconry	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783.
	Constituency (PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Diocese	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783.
	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
	Local Government District (MB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 634.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 285.
	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783.
	Sanitary District (USD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 638.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Local Unemployment Index (Ministry of Labour)
ROCHESTER AND ST ALBANS	Archdeaconry	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783.
ROCHESTER AND STROOD	Constituency (CCon)	Boundary Commission for England, Fifith Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 2009)
ROCHESTER CASTLE PRECINCTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHURCH	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'.
ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL CHURCH PRECINCTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'.
ROCHESTER CITY OF	Local Government District (MB)	1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)'.
ROCHESTER PRECINCTS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST CLEMENT	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST JUSTUS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST MARGARET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST NICHOLAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST NICHOLAS WITH ST CLEMENT	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST PETER	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ROCHESTER ST PETER AND ST MARGARET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 286.
ST MARGARET	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ST MARGARET EXTRA	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 287.
ST MARGARET INTRA	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 287.
ST NICHOLAS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 12, 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'.

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Rochester, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

• For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
• Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
• Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.



Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Rochester, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:



GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rochester, in Medway and Kent | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/17/names

Date accessed: 25th April 2024