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The Head Ports and their Corporate and Non-corporate Members
Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports

General information about the Cinque Ports

Members of the Cinque Ports

Membership and status has varied over the centuries. This list of the seven Head Ports (the five original Cinque Ports and the two Antient Towns) and their Corporate and Non-Corporate Members is the one given in Charles II's Charter of 1668. The Head Ports are arranged geographically from east to west. Some of the places mentioned no longer exist.

Sandwich

Sandwich's Corporate Member

Fordwich

Sandwich's Non-corporate Members

Deal
Deal Kent
Old Deal in Words and Pictures
Walmer
Ramsgate
Stonar
Sarre
Brightlingsea

Dover

Dover's Corporate Members

Dover's Non-corporate Members

Margate
Margate: Thanet Tourism
Margate Charter Trustees
St. John's
Goresend
Birchington
Wood/Woodchurch
St. Peter's
Kingsdown
Ringwould

Hythe

Hythe's Non-corporate Member

West Hythe

New Romney

New Romney Tour

New Romney's Corporate Member

Lydd

New Romney's Non-corporate Members

Rye (Antient Town)

Rye's Corporate Member

Tenterden
Tenterden: The Jewel of the Weald
Tenterden Town

Winchelsea (Antient Town)

Hastings

Hastings' Corporate Members

Hastings' Non-corporate Members

Bulverhythe
Petit Iham
Hidney
Beakesbourne
Grange/Grenche

Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports

This is not a complete list.

Roger Mortimer, Earl of March: c.1358
1st Duke of Dorset: 1708-13; 1727-65
William Pitt the Younger: 1792-1806
Victorian Web Page
Spartacus Page
2nd Earl of Liverpool: ?-1828
Victorian Web Page
Spartacus Page
1st Duke of Wellington: 1829-52
Victorian Web Page
Spartacus Page
Viscount Palmerston: ?-1865
Victorian Web Page
Spartacus Page
2nd Earl of Granville: 1865-91
W.H. Smith: 1891
1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava: 1892-5
3rd Marquess of Salisbury: 1895-1903
Victorian Web Page
Spartacus Page
InfoPlease Page
1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston: 1904-5
Spartacus Page
InfoPlease Page
Prince of Wales (later King George V): 1905-7
British Monarchy Page
Spartacus Page
Earl of Brassey: 1908-13
7th Earl of Beauchamp: 1913-34
1st Marquess of Reading: 1934-5
1st Marquess of Willingdon: 1936-41
Sir Winston Churchill: 1941-65
Churchill Center SIte
Spartacus Page
Sir Robert Menzies: 1965-78
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: 1978-2002

Walmer Castle

Official residence of the Lord Warden.

Dover Castle

The Lord Warden is Constable of Dover Castle.

Other Lord Warden links

Flag of the Lord Warden
Warden of the Cinque Ports: Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

© David Ovenden
E-mail: DavyO@tesco.net
Updated 23 April 2002