Cudham
Cudham, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. It is an extensive but thinly inhabited parish, nearly seven miles in length. The village stands near the boundary with Surrey, 3 miles southwest of Chelsfield rail station, and 7 miles south-south-east of Bromley and was once a market town. The parish comprises real property in 1860 of £4,844. Population in 1861, 998. The property is subdivided.
The manor belonged anciently to the Apperfields.
The Church dates from the 12th century and is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is an old building of flint and brick in the Perpendicular style, with a steeple rising from the middle with 9 bells, the oldest dating from 1490. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £306. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good.1
A weekly market was granted, by Henry III, to this place; but it is not known that any advantage accrued to the inhabitants by such privilege.
There is no high road through this parish, but coaches to and from London pass Leaves Green every day.3
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).
2Edward Hasted, ed. and comp. Parishes: Cowdham, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 60-78.
3Pigot's Directory, 1839
Cudham Bibliography
-- various. 'Archaeologia Cantiana'. Publisher: Kent, England: Kent Archaeological Society, various dates. Note: The following volumes can be found on archive.org: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1876), 11, 12, 13 (1880), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, vol. 1907 supplement.
- General references to Cudham: vol. 10, pp 157-158, 273; vol. 12, pp. 236, 303; vol. 13, pp. 11, 389; vol. 20, pp. 0, 12, 22, 37, 70, 164, 302; vol. 21, pp. 200, 209, 211; vol. 22, p. 294; vol. 23, p. 73; vol. 53, p. 49
- inventory of parish church goods, vol. 8, p. 279;
- rector of Cudham, vol. 14, p. 272;
- manor of Cudham, vol. 31, pp. lxv, 173.
'Roll A 29: 1388-89', Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London: volume 3: 1381-1412 (1932), pp. 148-169. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36701&strquery=cudham
'Deeds: C.1501 - C.1600', A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 1 (1890), pp. 536-546. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64244&strquery=cudham
Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey). Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, New Series, Vol. 1 (1876).
Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey). Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica - ser. 2, v. 1 (1886), vol. 1.
Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey). Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, Series 5, vol. 9.
Harker, Mary Afton Allen, 1911-. The Allen family, a history of Thomas Park and Agnes Jensen Allen, their ancestry and descendants.
Hussey, Arthur. Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date : including comparative lists of the churches, and some account of the sepulchral memorials and other antiquities. Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852).
Knocker, Herbert T. Kentish manorial incidents.
Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913 ; Fynmore, Richard John. Kent parish registers, marriages. V. 1
Silverthorne, Elizabeth. Bromley settlement examinations, 1747-1787 & 1816-1831--index. Kent: North West Kent Family History Society.
Steinman, G. Steinman (George Steinman), 1811-1893. Some account of the manor of Apuldrefield in the parish of Cudham, Kent (1851). London: J.B. Nichols.
Location of Records
The following list of records is not intended to be exhaustive. There are many records that are awaiting discovery in archive offices throughout Kent and England. This list is intended only to set out those records that are available via at least two relatively easy-to-access avenues. If you have used or discover a record that would be of benefit to other researchers, that is not on this list, please send me an email with the details of the archive - name, address and archival call number.
Census | Church of England | Non-Conformist | Parish chest | Workhouse and Poor Law | Land | Assizes and Sessions | School
Census
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The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU also available at: Bromley Local Studies & Archives, Central Library, High Street, Bromley, BR1 1EX, tel. 020 8461 7170, Email: localstudies.library@bromley.gov.uk |
LDS Family History Centre (Find a centre near you) and indexed online at: New FamilySearch.org |
6 June 1841 |
HO 107/481, ED 10, 11, 12 |
Film #0306874 |
30 Mar 1851 |
HO107/1606, ED 7a and 7b |
Film #0193505 |
30 Mar 1851 census name index & images |
Northwest Kent Family History Society CD7 or name index only on microfiche as part of Volume I. |
Film #0193505 |
7 Apr 1861 |
RG9/462, ED 3 and 4 |
Film #0542642 |
2 Apr 1871 |
RG10/875, ED 16 and 17 |
Film #0827771 |
3 Apr 1881 |
RG11/855, ED 26 and 27 |
Film #1341203 |
5 Apr 1891 |
RG 12/631, ED 32 and 33; also available from nwkfhs.org.uk as a transcript published on CD-Rom as part of CD2 |
Microfiche #6095741 |
31 Mar 1901 |
RG 13/691, ED 1 and 2 - online only http://www.1901censusonline.com and other subscription sites |
Indexed online at: New FamilySearch.org |
2 Apr 1911 |
RG 14/3690, ED 3; RG 14/3691, ED 4; RG14/3692, ED 5; RG 14/3693, ED 6; available online at http://www.1911census.co.uk and other subscription sites |
Indexed online at: New FamilySearch.org |
2 Apr 1911 |
RG 78/139 - Census Enumerator's Summary Books online only http://www.1911census.co.uk and other subscription sites |
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Church Records, Church of England
Record Type |
Dates |
Archive 1 (Addresses) |
Corresponding LDS Family History Library film numbers (Find a centre near you) |
Monumental inscriptions |
1800-1950 |
London County Council |
#0247893, Item 6 |
Parish registers |
1653-1800 |
Central Library in Bromley; P107/1/1-11, 14-15, 17-18 |
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1653-1800, Film #2145471, Items 8 - 10 |
Parish registers |
1801-1917 |
Central Library in Bromley; P107/1/1-11, 14-15, 17-18 |
Baptisms, burials, 1801-1848, 1832, 1833, 1847-1917; Banns and marriages, 1755-1793; Marriages, 1793-1900; Banns, 1814-1900, 1824-1873; Burials, 1813-1907; Film #2145472, Items 1 - 12 |
Parish registers transcripts, by Thomas Colyer-Fergusson; includes additional entries from BTs not found in the parish registers. |
Baptisms, 1653-1812, Marriages, 1654-1812, Burials, 1653-1812, index, list of vicars & clergy, briefs and surveys |
Canterbury, Kent : Kent Family History Society, c1985. ix, 168 p. ISSN 0308 9037 |
Fiche #6341221 (4 fiche) |
Burials Index |
1813-51 |
nwkfhs.org.uk, CD32 |
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Bishop's transcripts |
1719-1812 |
Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, DRB/RT2/107/1, DRB/RT1/107 |
Baptisms 1719, 1746, 1801-1812; Marriages, 1719, 1801-1812, Film #1469179, Item 11 |
Bishop's transcripts |
1813-1898 |
Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, DRB/RT2/107/1, DRB/RT1/107 |
Baptisms, 1814-1825, 1898; Burials, 1813-1825, 1898; Marriages, 1814-1825; Film #1469337, Item 3 |
Register extracts (Contains extracts of Jackson names) |
1660-1812 |
Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canterbury |
Film #1544549, Item 24 |
Church Records, Non-Conformist
Record Type |
Dates |
Archive 1 (Addresses) |
Corresponding LDS Family History Library film numbers (Find a centre near you) |
Cudham Methodist Church |
no date given |
Kent Library, Finding No CKS-M2/2H |
None |
Non-conformist Return for Cudham - Wesleyan |
1829 |
Kent Library, Finding No CKS-Q/C/R/3/W/39 |
None |
Particular Baptist Chapel, Nonconformist Return |
1829. Note: Less than 35, most of whom also attend the parish church |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no: CKS-Q/C/R/3/W/46 |
None |
Parish chest records
Settlement Examinations |
1747-1787 & 1816-1831. Indexed in Divisional petty session papers, Oct. 1747-Mar. 1770. |
North West Kent Family History Society |
Call Number 942.23/B1 N22b. Not on microfilm. Digital version may be viewed on a FHL computer. Divisional Petty Sessions Papers 1747-1770 on FHL film #2145576
Item 9 or digital images may be viewed on a FHL computer. Petty sessions minute book, 1816-1831 on FHL film #2145577 Items 1 - 2 but not yet available to view online.
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Removal orders out of Cudham |
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Removal orders into Cudham |
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Overseers' Accounts |
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Return of Churchwardens, constables and defaulters of | |
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Tithe Apportionment Files |
1843 July 25 |
IR 29/17/102 |
None |
Tithe map, 1 inch to 3 chains |
1843 July 25 |
IR 30/17/102; Shows buildings, woods (named), coloued |
None |
Poor Rate books |
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Workhouse and Poor Law Records
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Dates |
Archive 1 (Addresses) |
Corresponding LDS Family History Library film numbers (Find a centre near you) |
Admission & Discharge books |
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Guardians' Minutes |
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Ledgers |
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Births |
1879-1936 |
Bromley Archives & Libraries, call no.: Gby/WIc1-14; Gby/WIb1-3; Gby/WId1-3 |
on 2 films: 2145581-2145582 |
Deaths |
1907-1932 |
Bromley Archives & Libraries, call no.: Gby/WIc1-14; Gby/WIb1-3; Gby/WId1-3 |
on 1 film: 2145582 |
Religious creed registers |
1870-1936 |
Bromley Archives & Libraries, call no.: Gby/WIc1-14; Gby/WIb1-3; Gby/WId1-3 |
on 6 films: 2145577-2145581 |
Apprentice Register |
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Registers of lunatics |
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Letters books |
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Vaccination registers |
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Land Records
Record Type |
Dates |
Archive 1 (Addresses) |
Corresponding LDS Family History Library film numbers (Find a centre near you) |
Land tax assessments |
1780-1831 |
Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, England; no.: CKS-Q/RPL/98a |
Film #1469937, Item 6 |
Land tax assessments, for land tax not exonerated |
1798-1799 |
Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, England; no.: CKS-Q/RPl/438 |
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Index of Abstracts of land ownership |
1732-1919 |
Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1990; Kent County Archives, Maidstone |
Fiche #6090138 (1 fiche) |
Index of Deeds |
1619-1728 |
Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1990; Kent County Archives, Maidstone |
Fiche #6080227 (1 fiche) |
Index of Deeds |
1726-1938 |
Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1990; Kent County Archives, Maidstone |
Fiche #6089569 (1 fiche) |
Custumal |
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Estate Rental |
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Estate Rental |
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Rent Roll |
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Barrett-Lennard Manuscripts |
c1580, Manor of Cowdham in Cudham; Sisley v. John Philipps: recovery: imperfect |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: CKS-U1450/T5/32 |
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Christy Manuscripts, Parts of |
1839-1895, Title Deeds; including Aperfield manor and Court, 1895, and tithe rent charges on certain lands |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: CKS-U1280/T/3 |
None |
Lubbock manuscripts |
1670-1934, 1656-1866 (detailed abstracts of land ownership of High Elms estate, and deeds and papers of
Lubbock estates and business interests. Includes Will of Sir John William
Lubbock, 1840. |
Bromley Archives and Local Studies High Street, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1EX Phone +44 (0)208 461 7070 Fax +44 (0)208 313 9975 email: localstudies.library@bromley.gov.uk
Also at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent in form Finding Aids of Chadwyck-Healey |
Fiche #6073995 (1 fiche), finding aid only |
Oxon Hoath Estate |
1411-1743, manorial documents, deeds, etc. including Manor of Apuldefeld, numerous properties in Cudham, Downe, Keston and Bromley, and in Cudham, Downe, Keston and Bromley, and in Wrotham, Addington, Ryarsh, Trottescliffe, Leybourne, Offham and Ridley, including Ford House and Ford Mill in Wrotham |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: CKS-U31 with Finding Aid at CKS-U31/P/1 |
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Stanhope of Chevening Manuscripts |
1587 |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: CKS-U1590 with Finding Aids at CKS-U1590/T22/14, CKS-U1590/T22/20 |
None |
Streatfeild Manuscripts |
Manor of Cudham in Cudham and Keston with Marsh Green in Edenbridge |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: CKS-U908/M/uk7 |
None |
War Damage Files |
1939-1962 |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: Finding Aid at CKS-DRb/RW 123 |
None |
Assizes and Sessions Records (poor laws, jail terms, oaths, and other municipal and public records)
Record Type |
Dates |
Archive 1 (Addresses) |
Corresponding LDS Family History Library film numbers (Find a centre near you) |
Court of Petty Sessions, sessions papers and petty sessions minute book |
1747-1831 (mostly settlements) |
Bromley Archives & Library |
Papers, Oct. 1747-Mar. 1770 on FHL #2145576 Item 9; Papers, Mar. 1770-1787 with Petty sessions minute book, 1816-1831 on FHL #2145577 Items 1 - 2 |
Hearth tax |
1664 |
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent no.: CKS-Q, Finding Aid at CKS-Q/Rth. |
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Victuallers Recognizances |
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Churchwarden's Presentments |
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Parish rate books |
1673-1876 |
Bromley Archives & Library call no.: P47/11/1-90; P47/4/1 |
on 15 microfilm reels: 2145582-2145584; 2145675-2145686 |
School Records
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- BT Series: 158, 159, 160. Registries of Shipping and Seamen Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea(1854-1908); Deaths of British Nationals at sea (1875-1888); Births of British Nationals at sea (1875-1891), respectively.
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Total Population
1066 - est.
1801 - 514
1811 - 633
1825 - 683
1837 - 660
1851 - 776
1861 - 897
1881 - 1,029
1891 - 1,103
1901 - 1,111
1911 - 1,604
1921 - 2,247
1931 - 3,731
Cudham Distance to
London 15.0 mi.
Canterbury 43.5 mi.
Ashford 36.6 mi.
Bromley 6.7 mi.
Chatham mi.
Cranbrook 25.0 mi.
Dartford 10.0 mi.
Deptford 12.2 mi.
Dover 55.2 mi.
Faversham 35.4 mi.
Folkestone 49.9 mi.
Gravesend 16.0 mi.
Greenwich 11.6 mi.
Hythe 47.3 mi.
Margate 56.9 mi.
Milton 16.0 mi.
Queenborough 30.3 mi.
Ramsgate 58.5 mi.
Rochester 18.3 mi.
Sandwich 55.3 mi.
Sheerness 30.8 mi.
Tenterden 31.7 mi.
Tunbridge 15.2 mi.
Woolwich 12.4 mi.
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