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Introduction to Leigh: Concise History from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day
Leigh: Early History
Artists and Leigh
Beating the bounds in Leigh
Bell Ringing in Leigh
Cinder Hill and Iron
Oak Tree on the Green
Place Names in Leigh and other parts of Kent
Jutish Forest (ca 500AD-1350AD)
At the end of the last Millennium
Leigh History by F N Stagg
Leigh before the Normans, pre-1066
Medieval Eating and Drinking in Kent
Leigh to 1550: Villare Cantianum
King Harold on his Way to Hastings: 1066
Leigh authorizes creation of separate Parish of Bidborough 1219
Leigh Man in Rebellion against King Edward (1320s)
Roads: Three Years and Still the Road is not Repaired – local people complain!
Wealden Iron Industry: ca1400-1760
Did Leigh People see Shakespeare? (ca 1600)
Tonbridge Education and Sir Andrew Judde 1500-2019 – and the Leigh Connection
Catching the Post – ca. 1550s-1900
Flooding – Leigh and Medway: from 1600 to present
A Myth Exploded: The Flood Barrier
Navigation of the Medway 1500-1840
1661: Lady Anne Sidney marries Leigh’s Vicar, the Rev. Joseph Carte
Leigh Parish Registers
Shingle and Bear (sic): Leigh Churchwardens Accounts 1737-1740
Streatfeild Ledger Stone in the Nave of Leigh Church
Crime in the Village, 1796
Dr Robert Moffat 1795-1883
Leigh’s Three Windmills: 1820s-1960s
A hundred years of Leigh squirearchy: 1809-1886
Architect in Leigh: George Frederick Bodley (b. 1827-1907)
Leigh for Breakfast in 1823
George Devey, Victorian architect, 1820-1886
The Swing Riots in 1830 – and Leigh
Building of the South Eastern Railway track through Leigh 1840
What was Leigh like in 1840 – and what might you have been doing?
Tithe schedule: 1840
Canadian Red Indians, Shakers and Leigh, 1860
Hall Place Gardens in the last quarter of the 19th century
The Great Flood, 1880
Band of Hope – ca 1880-1900
Winter in Leigh 1879: Christmastide
Hall Place Gifts to Workers: 1880s-1945
Census and Cricketers in the Leigh Area: 1881
Diamond Jubilee celebration, 1897
Shocking Railway Accident in 1898
Leigh Village Policemen – 1900-1990
Killed by Lightning c1905
Church Parades, 9 June 1907
Coronation of King George V, 1911
Chiddingstone Causeway War Memorial: 1918
Geoffrey William Paley Ashmore
William Henry Crouch
William Crossland
Horace Henry Eade
William Edward Frost
Herbert William Grubb
Montague William Hewlett
Percy Henry Parker
Victor Henry Pitfield
James Richards
Alfred Sears
Arthur Edward Warner
Diary of an unknown man, 1904-1939 – named as Fred Eade
First World War – Half Time …
Leigh War Memorial: 1918 and 1945
William Henry Bamblett
Horace Batchelor
Sidney Batchelor
Edward Robert Bickersteth
Jack Brooker
Reginald Lewis Brooker
Charles Bourner
Frank Bourner
James William Bourner
Leslie Albert Chandler
John Albert Thomas Curtis
James Gordon Davies
James Charles Davis
Victor George Ready (Everest)
John Everest
Sidney Everest
Frank Faircloth
Anthony Lacon De Mallet Flower
Eric Gordon Fraser
Frank Garner
Frederick Healey
Sidney James Leonard Horan
Harry Horsey
Leslie Walter Cyril Humphrey
Albert George Janman
Frank Arthur Killick
Tim Lee – coal merchant
G. Mitchell
Charles George Henry Nixon
Gilbert Nixon
F. Parker
Philip Walter Patching
Sidney Pocock
Charles Robinson
Hubert Leslie Russell
Arthur Harry Murray Schofield
William Arthur Smith
James Taylor
Albert Towner
William James Upton
Herbert Upton
Roland Alfred Woodgate
Ernest Mark Young (Mark Young)
Godfrey Valentine Brooke Hine
Circuses and Funfairs in Leigh 1920s-1970s
Mummers’ Plays and Leigh ca 1930s
Leigh Playhouse – 1930s
Memories of Leigh Bakery and Chapel, 1927-1939
Fire at Hall Place – 28 November 1940
Leigh in the War 1939-45
Memories of a Leigh Evacuee – Gladys Hale
Memories of a Leigh evacuee – Tony Scragg
Evacuees in Leigh: Village Guests
Memories of Leigh during World War 2 by David Walters
Second World War events, by Bernie ‘Butch’ Baker
The Messerschmidt that surrendered in Leigh
The Battle of Britain and Penshurst Airfield
1940 and the Pillboxes around Leigh
Leigh’s Iron Cross: 1940
Telegraph Boy in the 1940s
Leigh Meals on Wheels 1940s-1980s
Bakery and chapel-going, by Joyce Juggins (1935-1948)
Lord Hollenden moves into workshops – 1941
Do You Remember Dadlems Day?
Sunday School 1950s
The village sign 1951
Harvest Festival 1959 Style
A Child at Hall Place
Village Childhood Fifty Years Ago
Coronation Celebrations 1953: A Parade of Decorated Vehicles!
Village Shopping Fifty Years Ago
Leigh’s First Parish Magazine – August 1957
Leigh 1952 and 2002
Reflections of a Parish Clerk 1956-1984
A Gamekeeper’s Troubles: George Clarke (1955)
Best Kept Village, 1971
Silver Jubillee, 1977
John Parfitt and Papers – from the start of the Historical Society, 1981
The Princess Christian Farm Colony 1895-1995
Wild flowers of Leigh (1985)
French Film Crew Visits Leigh in July 2014
Family history
The ANDERSON Family at Home Farm and Charcott
Gladys AXTELL
BAILY family of Hall Place
Who was Farmer Baily?
Lucille BAKER 1948-1959
BENFIELD family
BENNETT family
Dr Ernest BERKLEY
Harry BLACKFORD – Chauffeur to Dr. Beaufort Fraser
Charlotte BOURNER
BOYD family and Moat Farm
BROAD family
BROOKER family
BROOKER Family Tree
Tribute to Ken Brooker
Clement Bertram BURT
CHILDREN family
The CHEESEMAN family
George CORNELIUS, police constable
Harold COX (1859-1936)
CRANDALL family
Richard Crandall – Road Rage
The Crandall Dynasty
Betty CRAWFORD
Keith DAVIDSON – Memories 1957-1963 – and letters from mother and father 1964-1974
Doctors in Leigh
FAIRCLOTH Family
Harry Joseph FAIRCLOTH 1856-1929
Fred EADE
FARRANT Family
FARRANT Family Tree
Harold FARRINGDON – Cricket Ball Maker
The FITZJOHN family
Emma GARDNER’s Prize 1901
Roy Frederick GRANT
GRAY family
Joyce Caldwell – memories
GREVATT, George William
GREYLAND children
HEATH AND HINE FAMILIES
HEATH AND HINE FAMILY TREES
GODFREY VALENTINE BROOKE HINE (1890-1915)
HEATH FAMILY ALBUM
Origins of the Chinese Porcelain at The Woods
The HEALY Family
Bob HINGE – wins flight in Lancaster
HOBBS – WINTER- STYLES Families of Leigh and Charcott
John HOLDEN
Thomas HODSON – Leigh Resident in Prison
Florence HOSTLER
Albert Charles HUMPHREY family
Alfred HOUGHTON
INGRAM Family
Ike Ingram 1855-1947
Noel JEMPSON, Landlord of the Plough
John KNOCK (Pen Portrait)
Peter KING: Leigh Blacksmith: 1936-2014
Eileen LOCK
LUCAS Family
Lucas Brothers and Allotment Theft
MAGNUS Family and Porcupine House
MAY family
Thomas MAY’s letter to son 1849
MAY family letters to Henry May
MAY Family Tree and Notes
Cartes de Visite
Deed 4 Feb 1889: Isabella Maria May and Death Certificate
Indenture Between Thomas May and Samuel Morley: 28 December 1882
Indenture Between Henry Sturt and Thomas May re Little Lucy’s Farm 1886
MAY and OLIPHANT connection – who was Isabella Oliphant?
MAYNARD George ‘Pop’
MEACHAM, Charles Stephen: artist
MORGAN sisters
MORLEY and HICKS of Lealands Avenue
OLDER, Frank (1918-2006)
Samuel MORLEY
Samuel Morley at Leigh
Lady Sonja – 1919 to 2014
Edward OUTRAM, A Leigh Butcher
Janie van OOSTEROM
PANKHURST family
POCOCK Family
Joseph RANDERSON 1880-1973
SALES family
George Sales: Agreement signed 7 January 1858
Alfred SALES 1837-1928
Mrs SELDEN
SHOEBRIDGE Family
SIMMONS family
Jack Simmons and the Titanic
Bert STUBBINGS (and Argent) Family in Leigh
STYLES family
Thomas STURGESS, churchwarden
Edward TERRY
Phyllis UPFIELD
Rev. G E WESTON – Vicar of Leigh 1918-1926
WAITE family
JOHN WILDASH – Who was John Wildash?
Octavius WALTON
Reverend Walton’s photograph album
AMY CATHERINE WALTON
WINTER family
Richard YOUNG – Charge of the Light Brigade Hero from Leigh
Around the parish and MAPS
Maps held by the Leigh Historical Society
Maps of Leigh and district
Farm Survey, 1713 – Tyherst and Sinderhill Farms
Plan showing the Scheme of Drainage of the Village of Leigh, Kent: 1872
Farm Survey 1767 – Clark’s Farm
Farm Survey 1767 – Funk’s Farm
1870 Ordnance Survey – area around village
Farm Survey 1819 – Little Kettles Farm
Penshurst Estate, 1822
Hasted’s History of Kent, 1778, vol 1 the Somerden Hundred
Lady Yonge’s Estate, 1758
Andrew, Drury and Herbert, 1769
Hasted’s History of Kent, 1778, vol. 2: The Lowry of Tonbridge
1801 Ordnance Survey
1810 Plan for Proposed Grand Southern Canal
Greenwoods Map of Kent, 1821
Powdermills, 1837
Tithe Map, 1841
DRAINAGE MAP and REPORT 1872
Maps of Leigh
Leigh’s Shops and Trades
Beer retailers/pubs/publicans in Leigh
A Plea to Save Leigh Tradesmen (March 1991)
Moon’s Garage
Butchers in Leigh
Around the Green
Leigh Green and The Village Sign
Barden Cottages
Cherry Tree Cottages/Chestnuts
Church Hill Cottage/s
Church Hill House
Cricket Pavilion
East Lodge
Elizabeth Cottage
FORGE Square and area/properties south of Church
Forge (The) and Forge House (formerly Cottage) and Forge Cottage
Forge Square (formerly Great Boydens/The Row)
Great Boydens – The Row (now Forge Square): also Little Boydens
Great Brooks
South View, (including Little Boydens)
Inglenook
The Jubilee Almshouses
Kennards
Oak Cottage, The Green
Old Chimneys (formerly No 1 and 2 The Green)
Park House
The Slaughterhouse
Old Wood Cottage
Pippin Cottage
Porcupine House
The Goat’s Head
The Naming of Porcupine House
Vicarage (Old) – and Leigh’s Four Vicarages
The Village Pound
War Memorial
Charcott
Farms and the surrounding area
Applebys
Blackhoath Cottages
Cinder Hill Farm
Fair Acres
Forstall, The
Fosters Farm
Gales and Greenways Cottages
Garden Cottages
Garden Cottages in 1921: a talk given by Susanne MacGregor
Great Barnetts
Green Lane, The (Meadowbank, Crandalls, Wyndham)
Leigh’s Pre-Fabs (Meadow Bank)
Green View Avenue/Lealands Avenue
Home Farm (known as Clarks Farm until 1856)
Laundry Cottage (Bid Bridge)
Leigh Park Farm
Lightfoots Cottages
Little Barnetts Farm
Little Lucy’s Farm
Meadow Bungalow, off Weir Lane
Moat Farm: The Moated Site, Leigh Kent
Moorden: A Short Exhibition on the History of Moorden in Leigh
Moorden Farm House
Moorden Cottages
Oasts in Leigh
Oldhouse Farm and Old House
Old School House
Paul’s Farm
Powder Mills – The Cottages
Price’s Farm
Ramhurst Farm
Ramhurst Corn Mill
Watts Cross Windmill
White Cottage (The)
Wickhurst Farm and Oast
Woods, The
Gaza Barracks
Hall Place
Hall Place Rent Books
Hall Place 1660-1780
A Guest at Hall Place in 1859? And Who was John Wildash?
The Engineers Department at Hall Place
Game-keeping and Shooting in Leigh 1920s/1930s
High Street South Side – East to West; North Side East to West; and Lower Green
Bat and Ball and adjoining Cottages
Bombers Cottage
Budgeons Cottages – plus Bridge House, Ivydale and Bradbourne (Lower Green)
Chilling House (formerly The Limes)
Cottage (The)
Donkey Field
El Vanin and Ranmore
Engineers Cottages, Penshurst Road
Fleur-de-Lis and Fleur-de-Lis Cottages
Institute Cottage
Leigh Reading Room and Institute (Institute Cottage)
Oak Cottages, High Street and Lower Mead Cottage and The Firs
Old Bakery (The)
The Bungalow, Lower Green
Old Brickmakers
Orchard House
Restaurant in Leigh
Pear Tree Cottage(s)
Penshurst Entrance Lodge: Pinnacle/Pepperpot
Pump Cottage And Pump House
Rose Cottage (replaced with Charlotte Bungalows)
Saxby Wood
Square (The)
Stone House (The) and Park Cottage (formerly 1,2,3 Park Cottages)
Village Halls (The)
Village Halls Refurbishment Project 1984-1987
West Cottage and Park View
West Lodge
Waterworks Cottages, Kiln Lane
Waterworks, Kiln Lane
Well Close
Wheelwrights Cottage
White House (The)
Institutions, clubs and teams
Cricket Club
Leigh Cricket Club history
The Match at Hall Place Park Monday 5 June 1848 and additional article on Cricket in Leigh in 1848
An Innings which ‘lasted three days’
Football Club
Leigh Football Club Centenary
Junior Footballers of Yesteryear – Where are they now? (July 2003)
Golden Years Club
Hospitals for people in Leigh
Leigh Coal Fund
The Leigh Volunteer Fire Brigade
Leigh Volunteer Fire Brigade 1882-1948
Leigh Good Intent Benefit Society
Benevolence and Self-Reliance in Leigh in the 19th Century
Leigh Institute – minute books and accounts
Leigh Nursing Association and Leigh Invalid Comfort Fund
Leigh Poor and the Leigh Poor House
Leigh Families in the Sundridge Workhouse
Leigh Parochial Charities
Leigh United Charities
The Poor Law and the case of John Collens 1845
Sold for a Shilling and a Bottle of Gin
Leigh Police and Crime
Leigh Prosecuting Society
Why did Leigh need a Prosecuting Society?
Crime in Leigh in the first half of the 19th century
Leigh Special Police Constables
Crimewatch 1343!
Crime in the Village 1796
Richard Crandall and Road Rage
Lucas Brothers and Allotment Theft
Leigh Royal British Legion Table Tennis Club
Leigh School
Boy Gardens at Leigh School, 1931
Miss Helen M Naish – Headmistress of Leigh School 1946-ca 1968
Miss Winifred Ellis – infant teacher 1927-1946
Leigh Scouts – Scouting in Leigh – How it began
Leigh Village Horticultural Society: Brief History
Leigh Women’s Institute Pram Race 1971
Leigh Chapel
St Mary’s Church
Sermon by Rev Miles: November 2015
Worship in Leigh 1876–1883
The Churchyard
New Churchyard
Memorial Wall
Churchyard Boundaries: repair of the Church Wall after 1987 Storm
Vicars of Leigh
Church brasses
Stained glass
Stained Glass in the Heath Window, North Transept
Leigh Church during the Incumbency of the Rev. Hugh Collum
Refurbishing the Chancel in 1892
Monuments in Leigh Church
Leigh Church – A vicar, why not a Rector?
St Mary’s Choir (-1934-1984)
Painting of Leigh Church by Charles Stephen Meacham
Charles Meacham in the Local Press
Restoration of Leigh Church 1861
Four Leigh Vicarages
North Lodge, Redleaf, Penshurst
Powder Mills
Aynho – Powder Mills
Charity Win
Elizabeth I and her Association with Powder Mills
History of Powder Mills
Powder Mill Cottages
Powder Mills – general photographs
Watch House (The)
Checklist of trees and plants on the Powder Mills site, 2005
Maps of Powder Mills
1951 Ordnance Survey
1920 Ordnance Survey
1981 Ordnance Survey
1814 Kentish Sources
1837 Powdermills
1840 Tythe Map
1801 Ordnance Survey
1859 Conveyance Plan
1865 Ordnance Survey
1899 Ordnance Survey
1916 composite
1924 Ordnance Survey
1938 Ordnance Survey
Pictures of Powder Mills
Powder Mills photos of site at time of dig
People of Powder Mills
Powder Mills workers, 1930s
David Benfield, a Powder Mill Family from 1811
William Ford BURTON
Noel Jempson, Powder Mill Carpenter and Landlord of the Plough
A schoolboy’s memories of the Powder Mills 1925-1935
Powder Mill Workers and Relocation: The Cheeseman Family 1830-1859
Powder Mill workers and relocation: the Sealy (or Sealey) family
John Fredrick Herring and Explosions at Leigh Powder Mills
Tim Lee – Powder Mills lorry driver
The Swain family
Growth of Parish 1830-2020
Southwood – Leigh’s ‘other’ Stately Home
Photographs and Documents
Buildings
Church
Clubs, Teams, Village Organizations and Institutions
Documents
Events
General Views
People
Rev. Octavius Walton’s Photo Album
Archive
Archive index
Burials 1827-1840: of children 5 years and under
Chapel burials, Leigh Nonconformist Chapel
Chris Rowley, We had everything: Index
Deed 4 Feb 1889: Isabella Maria May plus Death Certificate
Deed 1 August 1913 Exchange of Land and Cottages (South View/corner Green Lane)
Deed of Redemption: Leigh United Charities etc 1938
Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of Kent
Hildenborough Burial Records and www.findagrave.com
Indenture between Henry Sturt and Thomas May re Little Lucy’s Farm: 1886
Indenture Between Thomas May and Samuel Morley 1882
Leigh Parish Registers 1592-1812
Leigh Workhouse, 1851
Minutes of the Parish Council (Indexes only) 1894-1979
Miscellaneous documents in our archive
Notes on the History of the Parish of Leigh, by Commander F N Stagg, 1946
Poor House deaths, 1829-40
Redemption Document re Charity of George Children 1937
Sale of part of the Penshurst Place Estate 1921
Vestry Minutes 1823-1844
Links
Society events
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