| Shoreham |
 Shoreham in 1900 |
| This parish is watered, by the river Darent, which takes its course through the middle of it. The village of Shoreham, which is by no means a small one, is situated on both sides of the river, over which there are two bridges in it, nearly, at the southern boundary of the parish, next to Otford, having both the church and the seat of New House on the eastern side of it. Hence, on both sides, the chalk hills rise, on which the soil is but barren, and much covered with flints, rise pretty high; beyond which, towards the east and western boundaries of the parish are the two small hamlets of Romney-street and Thimbling-bottom; in the fouth part of the parish, are the estates of Sepham and Filston; and, in the northern, close to the river, those of Preston and Shoreham, alias Lullingstone castle; and about three quarters of a mile westward from the former, close to the pales of Lullingstone park, though within the boundary of this parish, the farm, formerly accounted the manor of Cockhurst, belonging to Sir John Dyke. extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1797 |
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| 907 | Births | 4 | 6 | 7 | 97 | 219 | 370 | 194 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 88 | Christenings | 4 | 26 | 48 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 16 | Marriages | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Deaths | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | Burials | |||||||||||||||||||
| Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1797 | The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume III by Edward Hasted ⇒ p. 2 |
| 1839 | Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex ⇒ entry |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1909 | English Homes and Villages (Kent & Sussex) also published as Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood by Lady Hope ⇒ p. 160; p. 237 |
| Pictures | |||||||
 Shoreham Church - c 1900 |  Shoreham - c 1900 |  Lullingstone Castle - 1909 |  Lullingstone Castle - a Tudor house in Queen Anne dress - c 1930 |  Lullingstone Castle - the state drawing room - c 1930 | |||
| Places and properties in Shoreham - 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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