Edenbridge

The parish of Eatonbridge lies at some little distance below the ridge of sand hills southward, and it is accordingly accounted within that part of the county called The Weald, and is bounded westward by the county of Surry, from whence the little river Eden, the two streams of which from Oxsted and Lingfield having united, enters this county and directs its course across this parish, and receiving in its way several small streams, especially from the sandhills, it flows on eastward and joins the Medway at Penshurst. The river Eden crosses the village of Eatonbridge, which has the church on the east side of it, about half a mile south of which is Gabriel's house, belonging to Mr. John Stanford, and a little farther the two hamlets of Marsh green and Stanford's-end, and about a mile distant from it on the other side are those of Marlepit-hill and Medhurst row. The country here, and for the most part of the neighbouring parishes in this district, bears a far different aspect from that before described above the hills, the soil being for the most part a deep tillage land of stiff clay, moist and swampy, the hedge roads round the fields broad; and much filled with broad spreading oaks, and the roads deep and miry, broad, and very much covered with green swerd; the farmhouses are old-fashioned timber buildings, standing single and much dispersed, all which give the country rather a gloomy appearance, but whatever it may want in pleasantness is made up by health, fertility of soil, and, its many local advantages equally profitable both to the landlord and occupier. A fair is held annually in the village on St. Mark's day, April, 25, for cattle, toys, &c.. extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1797

Edenbridge 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
3146	Births	1	1	11	22	23	17	30	48	58	349	629	998	957	2
487	Christenings		1	10	17	18	17	29	45	35	128	172	15
148	Marriages			8		10	10	10	16	16	26	46		6
85	Deaths		1	5	6	14	5	8	9	7	10	4	6	6	1	1	1	1
62	Burials			4	6	14	5	8	9	7	8		1

Books and other documents

The History of Tunbridge Wells by Thomas Benge Burr in 1766 - Page 190

The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume III by Edward Hasted in 1797 - Page 179

Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex in 1839

New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen in 1840 - Page 266

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

Edenbridge Church by J. Oldrid Scott, F.S.A. & Granville Leveson-Gower, F.S.A. in 1895 - Page 95

Notes on Edenbridge by Granville Leveson-Gower, F.S.A. in 1895 - Page 109

Extracts from the Parish Registers of Edenbridge by Granville Leveson-Gower, F.S.A. in 1895 - Page 283

Hookers Household Almanack and Directory in 1903

Hookers Household Almanack and Directory in 1903

English Homes and Villages (Kent & Sussex) by Lady Hope in 1909 - Page 155

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

Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson in 1914 - Page 340

Edenbridge Parish Registers by Lionel Cole in 2009

Extracts from the Maidstone Journal by Lionel Cole in 2010

Edenbridge pictures	Farm House 1882	Farm House 1882	Stabling & Billiard Room 1882	Stabling & Billiard Room 1882	High Street 1900	High Street 1906	Stangrove Road 1908
	High Street 1909	Stone Bridge 1910	Lych Gate 1913	Haxted Mill 1915	Uplands Farm, Crockham Hill 1920	The River Eden 1920	Bullnose Morris in the High Street c 1920