Westerham
Sign in to saveWesterham 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 of 1086 in a Norman form, Oistreham (compare Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). 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. The total population in 2021 was 4,498.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Westerham.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A view across Westerham Green
- UK place.official_name
- Westerham
- UK place.population
- 4,498
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Westerham
- UK place.shire_district
- Sevenoaks
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Sevenoaks
- UK place.post_town
- WESTERHAM
- UK place.postcode_district
- TN16
- UK place.postcode_area
- TN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01959
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ445545
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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 of 1086 in a Norman form, Oistreham (compare Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). 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. The total population in 2021 was 4,498.
==History== thumb|left|280px| View of Westerham, Kent ca. 1831, from ''W. H. Ireland's History of Kent''. thumb|left|View of the Church, 1922 thumb|left|View of the Town, 1922 thumb|Church of St Mary the Virgin There is evidence that the area around Westerham has been settled for thousands of years: finds such as a Celtic fortification (c 2000 BC) and a Roman road are close by, along with the remains of a Roman encampment just past the ruins of a tower south of the town at the summit of Tower Woods.