Cudham, Kent
Historical Description
Cudham, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands near the boundary with Surrey, 4 miles from Orpington station on the S.E.R., and 7 SSE of Bromley. It was once a market-town, and has a post office under Orpington (R.S.O. Kent); money order office, Down; telegraph office, Knock-holt. The parish comprises 5925 acres; population, 1103. The manor belonged anciently to the Apperfields. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £255. The church is good; it was thoroughly restored in 1890. There are a Wesleyan chapel and charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Kent | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Cudham St. Peter and St. Paul | |
| Hundred | Ruxley | |
| Lathe | Sutton-at-Hone | |
| Poor Law union | Bromley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1653; marriages, 1654.
Findmypast have the following online for Cudham, SS Peter & Paul: marriages 1654-1812, burials 1813-1851
Churches
Church of England
Mission Church, Biggin Hill
The iron Mission church, erected in 1904, at a cost of £230, has sittings for 120 persons.
SS. Peter and Paul (parish church)
The church of SS. Peter and Paul, which dates from the 12th century, is of flint and brick in the Perpendicular style, and has a central tower containing 4 bells: the church was thoroughly restored in 1890 at a cost of about £4,000: there are 350 sittings. In the churchyard are some very fine yew trees.
Baptist
Baptist Chapel
Methodist
Methodist Chapel
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 Cudham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cudham (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Cudham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.