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Having for years dreamt about writing a parish history I have at last settled on Reculver. Judicious purchasing of reference works has reminded me how much background reading to the sources is necessary before undertaking a venture of this nature, although at 67 I hope to have long enough to complete it, DV !
My own consolidated Canterbury Probate Index which brings together grants of probate and administration from all courts for the city parishes. It is interesting to be able at a glance to see all the inhabitants of one parish, the occupants of the various almshouses, or perhaps all the Canterbury silkweavers in one go. The first tranche covers c.1720-1858. 
2019 was the 350th death anniversary of William Somner, one of the great 17th century scholarly antiquaries. He spent his whole life in Canterbury as a notary public, and cathedral registrar and auditor, counting Archbishop William Laud, his sometime employer, as one of his close friends.