Idehill, Kent

Historical Description

Idehill, a hamlet and a chapelry in Kent. The hamlet lies 5¼ miles SW of Sevenoaks station on the L.C. & D.R., and 5 from S.E.R. station. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Sevenoaks, and commands a very fine view. The chapelry was constituted in 1852. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 865. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Sundridge. The old church was built about 1805, and a new one in the Decorated English style, with tower and spire, at an estimated cost of, £2380, was built in 1865. There is a mission room on Goathurst Common, and also Calvinist and Baptist chapels.

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 County	Kent
Civil parish	Sundridge
Hundred	Codsheath
Lathe	Sutton-at-Hone
Poor Law union	Sevenoaks

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Idehill from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ide-Hill)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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