SHOREHAM, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Sevenoaks district, Kent. The village stands on the Sevenoaks railway, 4¾ miles N of Sevenoaks; and has a r. station with telegraph, a post-office under Sevenoaks, and a fair on 1 May.—The parish comprises 5,506 acres. Real property, £6,695. Pop., 1,253 Houses, 234. S. Place is the seat of H. B. Mild y, Esq.; Dunstall Priory, of Admiral Ryder Buxton. A castle of the Oldhams, of the time of Henry III., stood about a mile N of the village. There is a paper-mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £371.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is ancient; and was recently restored. There are a free school, three alms houses, and other charities £20. --The sub-district contains six parishes. Acres, 19,290. Pop., 5,183. Houses, 1,067.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))