Ightham is a parish and village in Kent, England, located approximately four miles east of Sevenoaks and six miles north of Tonbridge. The parish includes the hamlet of Ivy Hatch.
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Ightham Court 1719, engraving by Johannes Kip. It was built for Thomas Willoughby in the 1570s.
This life-size memorial of Sir Thomas Cawne of Ightham Mote dates to about 1374 and is the oldest and finest of the three main memorials in the church.
Skynners was built by 1555 as Valentine Skynner was fined 10d for his house encroaching on the highway in that year. The right half became a blacksmiths and has a 19th century gabled extension to the right and a wing to the rear. The left house became Daedalus Arms, an inn. George Wright was a builder and grocer during the 1871 census and his wife was a shopkeeper and innkeeper. Between the wars it was a garage and now the whole property is called Old Forge House.
Ightham Mote, at Ightham, is a medieval moated manor house in Kent, England. The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county".
Ightham Mote
Ightham Mote c.1828, brownwash painting by Samuel Palmer. Note that part of the building had been converted to an oast house.
Ightham Mote: the gatehouse rebuilt in the 1480s
The moat of Ightham Mote
