Brasted

The village of Brasted is situated on the high road to Westerham, which leads through the parish westward, midway between the two ranges of the chalk and the sand hills, to the former of which this parish extends, about a mile in length. About a quarter of a mile southward of the village, the river Darent flows through the parish eastward, a little southward of which is the church, and near the foot of the chalk hill, Brasted-court lodge, within the hundred of Westerham and Eatonbridge. Near the east end of the village is Brasted place, southward from which is a large parcel of waste, rough, and woody ground, called Brasted Chart common, extending for two miles to the sand hill, below which it extends for some length into the Weald, where it has the name of Brasted Weald, in like manner as the other parishes mentioned before; where, at the southern boundary of it, is the estate, called Delaware. The whole parish, notwithstanding its great length, at no part of it exceeds a mile in width; the soil of it, above the hill, excepting near the river, is but very indifferent, being near the northern hills chalky, and near the southern hills an unfertile sand; below the latter it is a stiff clay. extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1797

Brasted directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period

Parish & other records		Before 1500	1500 to 1550	1550 to 1600	1600 to 1650	1650 to 1700	1700 to 1725	1725 to 1750	1750 to 1775	1775 to 1800	1800 to 1825	1825 to 1850	1850 to 1875	1875 to 1900	1900 to 1925	1925 to 1950	1950 to 1975	1975 to 2000	After 2000
1063	Births							1	3	11	134	254	423	237
123	Christenings								3	8	43	54	14	1
40	Marriages							2		2	12	12	6	4	2
131	Deaths									3	12	21	37	45	11	1	1
128	Burials									3	12	20	39	43	11

Books and other documents

The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume III by Edward Hasted in 1797 - Page 146

Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex in 1839

Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. in 1882

Hookers Household Almanack and Directory in 1903

Edenbridge by Henry L. Somers-Cocks, M.A. & V.F. Boyson in 1912 - Page 82

Country Houses of Kent by Arthur Oswald in 1933 - Page 65

Extracts from the Maidstone Journal by Lionel Cole in 2010

Brasted pictures	Brasted Village 1903	Brasted Place - built by Robert Adam c 1930	Brasted Place - detail of the entablature c 1930	Old Pump and The Green 1940	High Street 1950