Pembury, Kent

Historical Description

Pembury, a village and a parish in Kent The village stands 4 miles SE of Tunbridge, and 5 from Paddock Wood station on the S.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge Wells. The parish contains also the hamlet of Lower Pembury Green. Acreage, 3650; population of the civil parish, 1662; of the ecclesiastical, 1657. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Kenward and Grovehurst are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £340 with residence. The parish church stands about 1½ mile from the village, includes Norman portions, contains several very old and curious monuments, and has been well restored. St Peter's chapel of ease to the parish church stands in the S, was erected at a cost of about £2500, and is in the Later English style, with tower and spire. There are Wesleyan and Nonconformist chapels, almshouses, and two clubs for working men. A reservoir for supplying Tunbridge Wells with water is situated in this parish.

Administration

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pembury from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pembury (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of Pembury 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.