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West Peckham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The River Bourne flows through the extreme west of the parish, and formerly powered a paper mill (Hamptons Mill) and corn mill (Oxenhoath Mill). The Wateringbury Stream rises in the parish. Oxon Hoath is the former manor house of West Peckham.
West Peckham | |
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Location within Kent | |
Population | 350 (2011 Census)[1] |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Maidstone |
Postcode district | ME18 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
At the time of the Domesday survey in 1096, about 29 households were in West Peckham, in the ancient hundred of Littlefield, Lathe of Aylesford, West Kent.[2]
The Domesday entry for East and West Peckham reads:-
The Saxon church of St. Dunstan's is open most days to visitors and the church is still actively used.[4]
Dukes Place on Mereworth Road is a Grade I listed timbered hall house, originally built as Preceptory of the Knight's Hospitallers in 1408 by John Culpepper.[5]