| Ashurst |
| Ashurst lies at the southern boundaries of this county, a stream of the Medway separating it from Sussex, and bounding the western and southern sides of this parish. It is in the hundred of Wachlingstone, which here joins the rest of it by a narrow slip running eastward by Tophill and Mitchel's farms, towards Rusthall common and Bishopsdown in Speldhurst. The northern part of it joins both to Penshurst and Speldhurst, in the hundred of Somerden, a part of which joins the Western part of this parish, separated from the rest of that hundred, and containing the hamlet of Groombridge, in Speldhurst. This parish consists of hill and dale, the western part is woody, the soil a stiff clay, wet and miry, and rather unfertile. The church is situated on the west side of the parish, about a quarter of a mile from the river, which here separating, forms a small island, on each side of which there is a bridge, over which the road leads into Sussex; there is no village, the houses being interspersed at different spots throughout it. In this parish is a seat and estate, called Ashurst Place, formerly Admiral Forbes's, now the property and residence of Peter Lefevre, esq. extract from Hasted's History of Kent published in 1797 |
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| 479 | Births | 1 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 35 | 117 | 113 | 114 | 56 | 3 | |||||||||
| 246 | Christenings | 9 | 7 | 30 | 26 | 85 | 42 | 33 | 14 | |||||||||||
| 52 | Marriages | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Deaths | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 13 | Burials | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1766 | The History of Tunbridge Wells by Thomas Benge Burr ⇒ p. 165 |
| 1797 | The Tunbridge Wells Guide by J. Sprange ⇒ p. 146 |
| 1798 | The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent - Volume V by Edward Hasted ⇒ p. 276 |
| 1814 | An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent by T. D. W. Dearn ⇒ p. 11 |
| 1826 | A Perambulation of Kent conteining the Description, Hystorie and Customes of that Shire, written in the Year 1570 by William Lambarde ⇒ p. 378 |
| 1830 | Guide of Tunbridge Wells ⇒ p. 69 |
| 1839 | Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex ⇒ entry |
| 1840 | New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen ⇒ p. 270 |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Kent by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1883 | Pelton's Illustrated Guide to Tunbridge Wells by J. Radford Thomson, M.A. ⇒ p. 132 |
| 1885 | Cobbett's Rural Rides by William Cobbett ⇒ p. 281 |
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