Ightham
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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 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.
River Bourne, Kent
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The River Bourne rises in the parish of Ightham, Kent and flows in a generally south easterly direction through the parishes of Borough Green, Platt, Plaxtol, West Peckham, Hadlow, and East Peckham wh
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…Roman villa at Patchgrove Wood on the northwest edge of Oldbury Hill, close outside the parish. In the 6th century, there was a settlement by the River Bourne. It is not known how the boundaries of the parish were established. There is no hard evidence for the establishment of a Saxon church, and Ightham was…
The River Bourne enters the Medway
The river emerges from a culvert, and flows along Busty Lane, Ightham.
Basted Mill Pond
Site of John's Mill