This On-Line version includes a church photograph for each ancient parish, but omits much of the information to be found in the printed volume, such as detailed information on parish registers, bishops transcripts, modern transcripts, supplementary parish records, census returns, maps, tax assessments and manorial records. The geographical coverage includes all the parishes found within the original boundaries of the diocese of Rochester, i.e. those prevailing up to 1845. Until this date the diocese extended from the River Thames in the north and the Surrey border in the west to Sussex in the south and to a boundary in the east approximating to the River Medway.
All information is ordered alphabetically by ancient parish .
Modern suburbs and ecclesiastical parishes should therefore be sought under the appropriate ancient parish - e.g. Hildenborough under Tonbridge, of which it was once a part. A cross-reference to the ancient parish is given for most sizeable places. This is the Ordnance Survey national grid reference. This has been taken from the published census reports, and gives some idea of the likely size of parish registers, census returns etc. The Gazetteer gives the hundred to which the parish belonged in the early century.