Pigots 1840 - Kent
Cudham, Nockholt, Brasted, Sundridge & Ide Hill
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Cudham is an extensive but thinly inhabited parish, nearly seven miles in length, four miles north from Westerham and seven NW from Seven Oaks, and rather more than the latter distance SE by S from Bromley. There is no high road through this parish, but coaches to and from London pass Leaves Green daily. The church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul is an old fabric of flint and brick, with a steeple rising from the centre; the living is a discharged vicarage in the presentation of the Crown. Henry III granted a weekly market to this place, but it is not known that this privilege ever proved of any advantage to the inhabitants.
Nockholt is a small village and parish two miles from Cudham, lying about a mile off the turnpike road running from Tonbridge to London. The church stands in an elevated situation; the living is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the Rector of Orpington; there is likewise a methodist chapel in the parish. On a very high hill in this neighbourhood are some remarkably old trees, called the “Nockholt Beeches”, which serve as a landmark for some parts of the coast.
About two miles and a half from Nockholt on the road from Westerham to Seven Oaks, two miles from the former and four and a half from the latter place is the pleasantly lively village of Brasted. The church dedicated to St Martin, is a large cruciform structure of stone, standing a short distance from the village; the benefice is a vicarage, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The parish is about seven miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. An annual fair is held here on Holy Thursday.
About a mile and a half from Brasted is the agreeable village of Sandridge also situated on the road between Westerham and Seven Oaks; it is watered by a small stream, upon which is a large mill for the manufacture of paper. Near the village is the church, a low stone edifice, with a square tower; the benefice which is a rectory is in the patronage of the see of Canterbury. At Ide Hill is a handsome stone church, of Gothic architecture, which is a chapel of ease to Sundridge but is independent thereof for the support of the minister, his stipend being derived from a fund left for the purpose by the late Doctor Beilby PORTEUS, bishop of London. There are about one hundred acres of hops planted in this parish. Sundridge confers the English title of Baron on the Duke of Argyll.
The whole of the above parishes are in the lathe of Sutton at Hone. Cudham and Nockholt are in the hundred of Ruxley; the former contained in 1831, 660 inhabitants and the latter 471. Brasted and Sundridge are in Codsheath hundred; the former contained 994 and the latter 1268 inhabitants.
POST OFFICE – Brasted, Sarah WHIFFEN, Postmistress. Letters from all parts arrive (by foot post from Seven Oaks), every morning at eight, and are despatched every evening at six.
GENTRY & CLERGY
BEST Mr T, Brasted
BLOXHAM Rev Matthew, Ide Hill
BURGESS the Misses, Brasted
BUTCHER Mr John, Nockholt
CHAPMAN Mrs Elizabeth, Nockholt
CREASEY Mr Jas. (surgeon), Brasted
DOUGLASS Mrs, Brasted
D’OYLEY Rev George, Sundridge
GIBBONS Rev John, Brasted
GRASETT William esq, Sundridge
HARMER Rev Thomas, Nockholt
HICKS Francis esq, Brasted
HOLMES Mr Robert, Brasted
LIDDARD Mr Stephen, Nockholt
MARTEN William esq, Nnockholt
MAYLIN Miss, Portslands
MAYNARD Mr William, Brasted
POLHILL George esq, Sundridge
RICHARDS Mr Edward, Nockholt
RICKETTS Admiral, Nockholt
SAIL Mr Henry, Sundridge
THALE Miss Susannah, Nockholt
WILGRESS Rev John Thomas, Sundridge
WILMOTT Charles esq, Sundridge
BAKERS
MARTIN William, Brasted
TURNER James (& corn dealer), Brasted
BLACKSMITHS
DALEY John, Brasted
REEVES William, Cudham
ROCK William, Nockholt
SMITH John, Ide Hill
TIDY Thomas, Brasted
TREMAIN Edward, Cudham
WEST Thomas & William, Brasted
WOOD George, Cudham
BOOT & SHOE MAKERS
COLLIER Peter, Brasted
DAMPER Richard, Ide Hill
DODD John, Brasted
GRAVITT Richard, Nockholt
JARRETT George, Brasted
JARRETT John, Sundridge
BRICKLAYERS
INGRAHAM John William, Sundridge
KING Thomas, Cudham
MORGAN Thomas, Nockholt
WELLS John, Brasted
BUTCHERS
ELLIOTT John, Brasted
HAMMOND Thomas, Nockholt
LANGRIDGE Richard, Brasted
SHOREY Elizabeth, Sundridge
CARPENTERS
CRANE Anthony, Cudham
DUDNALL Richard, Brasted
ELLIOTT Thomas, Brasted
LONGHURST John, Sundridge
STAPLES Philip, Brasted
YOUNG David, Nockholt
GROCERS & DEALERS IN SUNDRIES
FITCH Richard, Brasted
GIMSON Sarah, Nockholt
HUNT Isaac, Sundridge
LEE John, Sundridge
MARTIN James, Cudham
PEASGOOD Joseph, Cudham
ROGERS Walter, Brasted
SALES George, Leaves Green
WERRY William, Cudham
YATES Richard, Cudham
MILLERS
ASHBY John, Brasted
PADDY Joseph, Cudham
SMITH William, Brasted
PAPER MANUFACTURER
WILMOTT Charles, Sundridge
PLUMBERS & GLAZIERS
MARTIN Edward & Robert, Brasted
MILLS John, Nockholt
TAILORS
JONES Moses, Brasted
PAIN David, Brasted
TAVERNS & PUBLIC HOUSES
Arrow, John MARTIN, Nockholt
Black Bull, Henry ODELL, Brasted
Black Horse, James MARTIN, Cudham
Blacksmiths Arms, Jas. WARD, Cudham
Cock, George PARKER, Ide Hill
Crown, Philip ROCK, Nockholt
Horse Shoes, John ATTWOOD, Nockholt
Kings Arms, Mary OSMAR, Brasted
Kings Arms, Joseph PEASGOOD, Cudham
Lamb, Margaret HUBBARD, Sundridge
Stanhope’s Arms, Eliz, DAVEY, Brasted
White Hart, Thomas YEARRON, Brasted
White Horse, John SWEETSER, Sundridge
WHEELWRIGHTS
EMAN Esther, Cudham
PARRATT Thomas, Brasted
ROOTS Henry, Sundridge
SMITH John, Brasted
MISCELLANEOUS
AKHURST Stephen, hop grower, Brasted
BOOTH Daniel, surveyor, Sundridge
DAVEY Richard, brewer, Brasted
GRAVITT John, fruit grower, Nockholt
HOLMES John, saddler, Brasted
MOORE Richard, schoolmaster, Brasted
TAYLOR Frederick, maltster, Cudham
WHIFFEN Sarah, linen maker, Brasted
WINTER Richard, market gardener, Brasted
COACH
To London, a Coach, from Sundridge every morning, (Sunday excepted), at half past seven; goes through Brasted, Westerham & Keston
CARRIERS
To London, William HUBBLE, from Brasted every Monday & Thursday, and Thomas HOGBEN every Wednesday and Friday.
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