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Brenchley, Kent

Historical Description

Brenchley, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands 2½ miles S by E of Paddock-Wood station on the S.E.R., and 7 ENE of Tunbridge Wells. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.) Some good old timbered houses are in it, and a clump of trees on high ground near it figures conspicuously over many miles. The parish includes also the hamlets of Colts-Hill, Mascalls-Pound, Henlys, Piersons-Green, and Pettridge. Acreage, 7804; population of the civil parish, 3822; of the ecclesiastical, 1624. There are mineral waters similar to those of Tunbridge. A holiday home in connection with the Ragged School Union was opened here in 1886. Hops and fruit are extensively grown. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £560 with residence. The church is old, cruciform, and good, and has a lofty tower. Paddock-Wood and Matfield are separate benefices. There are a Baptist chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, and small charities.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyKent 
Ecclesiastical parishBrenchley All Saints 
HundredBrenchley and Horsemonden 
LatheAylesford 
Poor Law unionTonbridge 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The register dates from the year 1560.

Findmypast have the following online for Brenchley, All Saints: baptisms 1560-1975, marriages 1560-1917, burials 1560-1909


Churches

Church of England

All Saints (parish church)

The church of All Saints is of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and has a tower containing 6 bells and a clock with chimes, placed in 1886, at a cost of £300: the church affords 550 sittings: in the churchyard is a remarkably fine avenue of yew trees leading up to the north porch.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brenchley from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Brenchley are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.

DistrictTunbridge Wells
CountyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtTN12
Post TownTonbridge

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