History

There exists tremendously grounds to believe that the metropolitan area in Westerham has been settled for hundreds to thousands of years: inds like a Celti100 fortification (c 2000 BC) and the Roman road come close by. A manor was originally run by Godwin, Earl of Kent and in the future by his boy Harold the last Saxon King of England.

By 1227 Henry III granted Westerham the market charter, making the at present village a major streaming video player within the purchasing & merchandising bos taurus in Kent, a tradition that survived correct as much as 1961 when the endure cows market was held. All over a centuries newly families get in a village, including a Warde personal, world health organization keep close at hand lived at Squerryes Court since 1731. A Wardes however survive there now: & their personal occurs as tourist attraction.

General James Wolfe was born on this button, & there is a statue to him in the independent squcome of the village: numerous streets & buildings are besides known as when him.

St Mary's church is thought to date from either a 13th century, although much altered inside Victorian days.

Chartwell
Inside 1922 Winston Churchill MP purchased Chartwell Manor on a outskirts of Westerham, which, apart from either the period he spent at 10 Downing Street, was his home for the rest of his life. Chartwell is today in the mitts of the National Trust.

There is a statue of Sir Winston Churchill on the village green at Westerham. It was executed by Oscar Nemon and stands on the base of Yugoslavian stone, the gift of Marshal Tito.

Railway
A South Eastern Railway opened the Quartet.Twenty-five mile spur track from either Dunton Green to Westerham on 7 July 1881; all services were withdrawn from either a branch in 30 October 1961. a trackbed of the railway is to a big extent below the line of the M25 motorway which runs northerly of the village.