| Goudhurst |
 High Street in 1910 |
| Goudhurst is a very picturesquely situated village, having the advantage of its neighbour in the matter of height, for it is on the summit of one of the loftiest ridges in the Weald and all about it are to be had grand views - that from the church to the south across the "Fright" woods and Bedgebury Park is especially fine. This view from the churchyard is said by one with a liking for the particularity of figures to be "about twenty-five miles in diameter." In the church, much rebuilt and restored, the tower of which forms a striking landmark, are some curious old monuments while in the large village are some of the ancient houses in which the clothmaking industry was carried on in the palmy days of that manufacture in Kent. "Some little wool staplery business" was continued here on into the early nineteenth century. extract from Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold published in 1914 |
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| 3670 | Births | 75 | 167 | 134 | 27 | 19 | 47 | 126 | 537 | 842 | 1155 | 513 | 24 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 1060 | Christenings | 70 | 164 | 128 | 27 | 19 | 44 | 75 | 166 | 229 | 77 | 46 | 14 | 1 | ||||||
| 190 | Marriages | 8 | 24 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 27 | 27 | 39 | 16 | 7 | 2 | |||||||
| 225 | Deaths | 9 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 32 | 62 | 37 | 23 | 4 | ||||||||
| 234 | Burials | 9 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 31 | 65 | 38 | 27 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
| Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1766 | The History of Tunbridge Wells by Thomas Benge Burr ⇒ p. 254 |
| 1797 | The Tunbridge Wells Guide by J. Sprange ⇒ p. 244 |
| 1798 | The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume VII by Edward Hasted ⇒ p. 65 |
| 1810 | Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood by Paul Amsinck and Letitia Byrne ⇒ p. 38 |
| 1814 | An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent by T. D. W. Dearn ⇒ p. 94 |
| 1830 | Guide of Tunbridge Wells ⇒ p. 156 |
| 1839 | Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex ⇒ entry |
| 1840 | New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen ⇒ p. 213 |
| 1858 | Smuggling in Sussex by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 83 |
| 1868 | School Inquiry Commision Vol XI South-East Division by C. I. Elton and H. A. Giffard ⇒ p. 62 |
| 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. 241; p. 325; p. 581; p. 587; p. 620; p. 651; p. 708; p. 839; p. 843 |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1883 | Pelton's Illustrated Guide to Tunbridge Wells by J. Radford Thomson, M.A. ⇒ p. 174 |
| 1885 | Cobbett's Rural Rides by William Cobbett ⇒ p. 289 |
| 1911 | Some Timber-framed Houses in the Kentish Weald by H.S. Cowper, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 174 |
| 1914 | Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson ⇒ p. 256 |
| 1923 | The Monumental Inscriptions in the churchyard of Goudhurst Church by Leland L. Duncan ⇒ Kent Archaeological Society |
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| Places and properties in Goudhurst - 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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