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Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station

railway station in Lydden, Kent, England, UK, now closed

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ112274111 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station served the village of Lydden, Kent, England, from 1914 to 1954 on the Chatham Main Line.

History

The station was opened to the public in June 1914 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, although it was used earlier by miners and workmen on 1 January 1914 and used for the Temple Ewell Parish Council meeting on 30 March 1914. It was known as Lydden Halt around this time. It closed on 5 April 1954, although it was used by staff going to Dover on 17 June 1957, when it was known as Stonehall.

Editorial summary

“Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station” enters the record as railway station in Lydden, Kent, England, UK, now closed. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stonehall, Lydden and Halt can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1954, 1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stonehall, Lydden and Halt.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stonehall, Lydden and Halt provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112274111. Authority coordinates are 51.164, 1.245. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1954 and 1957.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station primary sources, Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station archive and Stonehall research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Stonehall and Lydden Halt railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.