Chiddingstone

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Chiddingstone






Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TQ495455
Administration
District:	Sevenoaks
Shire county:	Kent
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Kent
Historic county:	Kent
Services
Police force:	{{{Police}}}
Ambulance service:	South East Coast
Post office and telephone
Post town:	Edenbridge
Postal district:
Dialling code:
Politics
UK Parliament:
European Parliament:	South East England

Chiddingstone is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the River Eden between Tonbridge and Edenbridge. The village of Chiddingstone Causeway is included in the parish.

1 The village
- 1.1 Origin of name
- 1.2 Ownership of village
2 Parish Church
3 The parish
4 External links

[edit] The village

[edit] Origin of name

The village takes its name from a large sandstone rock formation, situated on its outskirts, named the Chiding Stone. Tradition asserts that the stone was used as a seat of judgement, mainly to remonstrate overbearing local wives. It has also been wrongly described as a Druidical ritual site and more convincingly suggested as being a landmark used as a Saxon boundary marker. Chiddingstone means "the stone of Chidda's tribe" - Chidda presumably being a local Saxon leader.

[edit] Ownership of village

Chiddingstone is unique in that, apart from the church and the Castle, the entire village is owned by the National Trust. It is described as being " the most perfect surviving example of a Tudor village in the county".

[edit] Parish Church

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, enhances the look of the village, and is perhaps the fourth built on that site. In the churchyard is a mausoleum dating from 1736 built by Henry Streatfield; and round the walls, which are panelled, run wooden benches. The church was almost destroyed by a lightning fire in 1624.

[edit] The parish

There is an RSPB Reserve outside the village at Bough Beech.

Penshurst railway station is located in the village of Chiddingstone Causeway. It is on the line between Tonbridge and Redhill.

Chiddingstone High Street

The natural sandstone Chiding Stone

[edit] External links

view • talk • edit The town of Sevenoaks in Kent, South East England with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes:
Ash • Ash-cum-Ridley • Bough Beech • Brasted • Brasted Chart • Chevening • Chiddingstone • Chiddingstone Causeway • Chipstead • Cowden • Crockenhill • Crockham Hill • Dunton Green • Edenbridge • Eynsford • Farningham • Fawkham • Fawkham Green • Fordcombe • Four Elms • Halstead • Hartley • Hever • Hextable • Hodsoll Street • Horton Kirby • Horton Kirby and South Darenth • Ide Hill • Kemsing • Knockholt • Leigh • Markbeech • Marsh Green • New Ash Green • Otford • Penshurst • Ridley • Riverhead • Seal • Sevenoaks Weald • Shoreham • South Darenth • Sundridge • Sundridge with Ide Hill • Swanley • Swanley Village • Toys Hill • Underriver • Westerham • West Kingsdown
The district of Sevenoaks List of places in Kent

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The town of Sevenoaks in Kent, South East England
with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes:

Ash • Ash-cum-Ridley • Bough Beech • Brasted • Brasted Chart • Chevening • Chiddingstone • Chiddingstone Causeway • Chipstead • Cowden • Crockenhill • Crockham Hill • Dunton Green • Edenbridge • Eynsford • Farningham • Fawkham • Fawkham Green • Fordcombe • Four Elms • Halstead • Hartley • Hever • Hextable • Hodsoll Street • Horton Kirby • Horton Kirby and South Darenth • Ide Hill • Kemsing • Knockholt • Leigh • Markbeech • Marsh Green • New Ash Green • Otford • Penshurst • Ridley • Riverhead • Seal • Sevenoaks Weald • Shoreham • South Darenth • Sundridge • Sundridge with Ide Hill • Swanley • Swanley Village • Toys Hill • Underriver • Westerham • West Kingsdown