Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 3.4 miles east of Oxted and 6 miles west of Sevenoaks, adjacent to the Kent border with both Greater London and Surrey.
It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in a Norman form, Oistreham. Hām is Old English for a village or homestead, and so Westerham means a westerly homestead. The River Darent flows through the town, and formerly powered three watermills.
A view across Westerham Green
View of Westerham, Kent ca. 1831, from W. H. Ireland's History of Kent.
View of the Church, 1922
View of the Town, 1922
Sevenoaks is a local government district in west Kent, England. Its council is based in the town of Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks St Nicholas Church
Sevenoaks District
Hever Castle is in Sevenoaks district