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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sevenoaks Weald like this:
WEALD, a chapelry, with a village, in Sevenoaks parish, Kent; on the edge of the Weald, 2½ miles S of Sevenoaks r. station. It has a post-office under Sevenoaks. Pop. in 1851, 963; in 1861, 824. Houses, 160. Riverhill House, St. Julian's, and Beechmont are chief residences. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £90.* Patron, the Rector of Sevenoaks. The church was built in 1820. There are national schools and alms houses.
Sevenoaks Weald is now part of SEVENOAKS District. Click here for graphs and data of how SEVENOAKS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sevenoaks Weald itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sevenoaks Weald, in Sevenoaks and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24521
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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