| Edenbridge |
 Edenbridge High Street in 1906 |
| The parish of Eatonbridge lies at some little distance below the ridge of sand hills southward, and it is accordingly accounted within that part of the county called The Weald, and is bounded westward by the county of Surry, from whence the little river Eden, the two streams of which from Oxsted and Lingfield having united, enters this county and directs its course across this parish, and receiving in its way several small streams, especially from the sandhills, it flows on eastward and joins the Medway at Penshurst. The river Eden crosses the village of Eatonbridge, which has the church on the east side of it, about half a mile south of which is Gabriel's house, belonging to Mr. John Stanford, and a little farther the two hamlets of Marsh green and Stanford's-end, and about a mile distant from it on the other side are those of Marlepit-hill and Medhurst row. The country here, and for the most part of the neighbouring parishes in this district, bears a far different aspect from that before described above the hills, the soil being for the most part a deep tillage land of stiff clay, moist and swampy, the hedge roads round the fields broad; and much filled with broad spreading oaks, and the roads deep and miry, broad, and very much covered with green swerd; the farmhouses are old-fashioned timber buildings, standing single and much dispersed, all which give the country rather a gloomy appearance, but whatever it may want in pleasantness is made up by health, fertility of soil, and, its many local advantages equally profitable both to the landlord and occupier. A fair is held annually in the village on St. Mark's day, April, 25, for cattle, toys, &c. extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1797 |
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| 3596 | Births | 1 | 1 | 13 | 26 | 54 | 32 | 50 | 81 | 103 | 467 | 752 | 1051 | 959 | 6 | |||||
| 876 | Christenings | 1 | 12 | 21 | 47 | 33 | 49 | 74 | 75 | 239 | 286 | 35 | 4 | |||||||
| 136 | Marriages | 4 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 42 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| 161 | Deaths | 2 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 25 | 24 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 130 | Burials | 4 | 8 | 21 | 8 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 19 | 1 | |||||||||
| Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1766 | The History of Tunbridge Wells by Thomas Benge Burr ⇒ p. 190 |
| 1797 | The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume III by Edward Hasted ⇒ p. 179 |
| 1814 | An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent by T. D. W. Dearn ⇒ p. 87 |
| 1839 | Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex ⇒ entry |
| 1840 | New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen ⇒ p. 266 |
| 1874 | A History of The Weald of Kent with an outline of the History of the County to the present time, Volume II by Robert Furley, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 13; p. 127; p. 243; p. 247; p. 708; p. 839 |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1895 | Edenbridge Church by J. Oldrid Scott, F.S.A. & Granville Leveson-Gower, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 95 |
| 1895 | Notes on Edenbridge by Granville Leveson-Gower, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 109 |
| 1895 | Extracts from the Parish Registers of Edenbridge by Granville Leveson-Gower, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 283 |
| 1903 | Hookers Household Almanack and Directory ⇒ entry |
| 1909 | English Homes and Villages (Kent & Sussex) also published as Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood by Lady Hope ⇒ p. 155 |
| 1912 | Edenbridge by Henry L. Somers-Cocks, M.A. & V.F. Boyson ⇒ Book |
| 1914 | Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson ⇒ p. 340 |
| 2009 | Edenbridge Parish Registers by Lionel Cole ⇒ Register |
| 2010 | Extracts from the Maidstone Journal (1786-1851) relating to Edenbridge, Hever, Chiddingstone, Westerham, Brasted and Hever by Lionel Cole ⇒ Journal |
| 2012 | An Index to the People in Edenbridge between 1200 and 1851 by Lionel Cole ⇒ Book p. i |
| 2012 | An Index to the Places in Edenbridge by Lionel Cole ⇒ Book p. i |
| Places and properties in Edenbridge - a directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period |
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