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EdenbridgeEdenbridge is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Shoreham. The church is named for St. Peter & St. Paul with registers commencing 1546. Edenbridge, is a village and a parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent. The village stands on the river Eden, adjacent to the Southeastern railway, 8 miles west of Tunbridge; and has a station on the railway with telegraph, a head post office designated Edenbridge, Kent, with a savings banks and a money order office, and a market on 4th Tuesday of every month. The parish comprises 7,020 acres. Real property in 1860, £7,667. Population in 1861, 1,736. Houses,335. The southern district is hilly, and formerly had iron mines. Several chalybeate springs occur, and one saline. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £427, with a habitable glebe house. Patron, F. R. Gore, Esq.. The church has some Norman portions, but is chiefly early and later English; and it has a western steeple and a brass of 1558, and was restored in 1860. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists. Source: John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). Edenbridge 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.]
Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II, Vol. 1. 1307-1313'Each volume has own index. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids : with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, A. D. 1284-1431', Vol. 3. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Great Britain, Exchequer. 'The book of fees commonly called testa de nevill, pt. 3'. The Book of fees contains information about the holdings of feudal tenants. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Hall, Hubert, 1857-1944. 'The Red book of the Exchequer - Liber rubeus de Scaccario, Vol. 3'. The Red book of the Exchequer was a register intended to preserve important documents comprising charters, statutes of the realm, public acts (Placita), private deeds and ordinances, correspondence. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Glencross, Reginald Morshead. 'Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. 1. 1559-1571'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org. Hasted, Edward. 'The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent; Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical; collected from public records, and other authorities: illustrated with maps, views, antiquities, etc. The second edition, improved, corrected, and continued to the present time'. 12 volumes. Publisher: Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow, 1797-1801. URL: British History Online Hussey, Arthur. 'Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date'. Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852). Letters, Dr. Samantha. 'Kent', Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (2005). URL: British History Online. Page, William, 1861-1934, ed.. 'The Victoria history of the county of Kent'. Publisher: London: Constable (1908). URL: British History Online Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 39', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 2: Edward I. Published:(1906), pp. 315-323. URL: British History Online. Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 45', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 1: Henry III. Published:(1904), pp. 296-302. URL: British History Online. Location of RecordsThe 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
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1831 - 1,432
1841 - 2,029
1851 - 1,718
1861 - 1,736
1871 - 1,891
1881 - 1,943
1891 - 2,266
1901 - 2,546
1911 - 2,993
1921 - 2,890
The civil parish of the same name at the 1921 census was coextensive with such parish (or place).
A large number of railway labourers temporarily present in 1841.
London 22.8 mi.
Canterbury 44.0 mi.
Ashford 34.9 mi.
Chatham 23.1 mi.
Cranbrook 21.4 mi.
Dartford 17.5 mi.
Deptford 19.9 mi.
Dover 54.1 mi.
Faversham 36.6 mi.
Folkestone 48.2 mi.
Gravesend 21.7 mi.
Greenwich 19.5 mi.
Hythe 45.3 mi.
Maidstone 20.6 mi.
Margate 58.4 mi.
Milton Regis 30.7 mi.
Queenborough 33.4 mi.
Ramsgate 59.4 mi.
Rochester 22.1 mi.
Sandwich 55.8 mi.
Sheerness 34.3 mi.
Tenterden 28.5 mi.
Tonbridge 9.3 mi.
Woolwich 20.5 mi.