Cudham

Cudham, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent.  It is an extensive but thinly inhabited parish, nearly seven miles in length.  The village stands near the boundary with Surrey, 3 miles southwest of Chelsfield rail station, and 7 miles south-south-east of Bromley and was once a market town.  The parish comprises real property in 1860 of £4,844.  Population in 1861, 998.  The property is subdivided.

The manor belonged anciently to the Apperfields.

The Church dates from the 12th century and is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is an old building of flint and brick in the Perpendicular style, with a steeple rising from the middle with 9 bells, the oldest dating from 1490.  The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £306.  Patron, the Lord Chancellor.  The church is old but good.¹

A weekly market was granted, by Henry III, to this place; but it is not known that any advantage accrued to the inhabitants by such privilege.   There is no high road through this parish, but coaches to and from London pass Leaves Green every day.³

¹John Marius Wilson, comp.  The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

²Edward Hasted, ed. and comp.  Parishes: Cowdham, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1797), pp. 60-78.

³Pigot's Directory, 1839

Cudham Bibliography

-- various. 'Archaeologia Cantiana'. Publisher: Kent, England: Kent Archaeological Society, various dates. Volumes 1 through 139 are available to view free on the Kent Archaeological Society website.  . [Note: The following volumes can be found on archive.org: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1876), 11, 12, 13 (1880), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, vol. 1907 supplement.]

• General references to Cudham: vol. 10, pp 157-158, 273;  vol. 12, pp. 236, 303;  vol. 13, pp. 11, 389;  vol. 20, pp. 0, 12, 22, 37, 70, 164, 302;  vol. 21, pp. 200, 209, 211;  vol. 22, p. 294;  vol. 23, p. 73;  vol. 53, p. 49
• inventory of parish church goods, vol. 8, p. 279;
• rector of Cudham, vol. 14, p. 272;
• manor of Cudham, vol. 31, pp. lxv, 173.

'Roll A 29: 1388-89', Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London: volume 3: 1381-1412 (1932), pp. 148-169. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36701&strquery=cudham

'Deeds: C.1501 - C.1600', A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 1 (1890), pp. 536-546. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64244&strquery=cudham

Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey). Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, New Series, Vol. 1 (1876).

Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey). Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica - ser. 2, v. 1 (1886), vol. 1.

Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey). Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, Series 5, vol. 9.

Harker, Mary Afton Allen, 1911-.  The Allen family, a history of Thomas Park and Agnes Jensen Allen, their ancestry and descendants.

Hussey, Arthur.  Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date : including comparative lists of the churches, and some account of the sepulchral memorials and other antiquities.  Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852).

Knocker, Herbert T. Kentish manorial incidents.

Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913 ; Fynmore, Richard John.  Kent parish registers, marriages. V. 1

Silverthorne, Elizabeth.  Bromley settlement examinations, 1747-1787 & 1816-1831--index.  Kent:  North West Kent Family History Society.

Steinman, G. Steinman (George Steinman), 1811-1893.  Some account of the manor of Apuldrefield in the parish of Cudham, Kent (1851).  London: J.B. Nichols.

Cooper, Robert M., contr.. 'The Literary Guide & Companion to Southern England'. Publisher: Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998.

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II, Vol. 1. 1307-1313'Each volume has own index. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II, Vol. 4 Great Britain. Public Record Office Great Britain - Public records - Inventories, registers, catalogs; Great Britain - History - Plantagenets, 1154-1399 - Sources; Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward III, Vol. 4. 1337-1339'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward IV, A.D. 1461-1467'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Henry VI, Vol. 5. 1447-1454'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Philip and Mary, Vol. 2. 1554-1555. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Philip and Mary', Vol. 3. 1555-1557. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids : with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, A. D. 1284-1431', Vol. 3. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Great Britain, Exchequer. 'The book of fees commonly called testa de nevill, pt. 3'. The Book of fees contains information about the holdings of feudal tenants. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Hall, Hubert, 1857-1944. 'The Red book of the Exchequer - Liber rubeus de Scaccario, Vol. 3'. The Red book of the Exchequer was a register intended to preserve important documents comprising charters, statutes of the realm, public acts (Placita), private deeds and ordinances, correspondence. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Glencross, Reginald Morshead. 'Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. 1. 1559-1571'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; https://www.familysearch.org.

Hasted, Edward. 'The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent; Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical; collected from public records, and other authorities: illustrated with maps, views, antiquities, etc. The second edition, improved, corrected, and continued to the present time'. 12 volumes. Publisher: Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow, 1797-1801. URL: British History Online

Hussey, Arthur. 'Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date'. Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852).

Letters, Dr. Samantha. 'Kent', Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (2005).  URL: British History Online.

Page, William, 1861-1934, ed.. 'The Victoria history of the county of Kent'. Publisher: London: Constable (1908).  URL: British History Online

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Edward I. Published:(1906).  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Edward II. Published:(1910).  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Edward III. Published:(1938).  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry III. Published:(1904).  URL: British History Online.

Kirby, J. L., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry IV. Published:(1992).  URL: British History Online.

Kirby, J. L., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry V', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry V. Published:(1995).  URL: British History Online.

Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and A. C. Wood, ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Henry VII. Published:(1955).  URL: British History Online.

M. C. B. Dawes, H. C. Johnson, M. M. Condon, C. A. Cook and H. E. Jones, ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, various volumes: Richard II. Published:(1988).  URL: British History Online.

Location of Records

The following list of records is not intended to be exhaustive.  There are many records that are awaiting discovery in archive offices throughout Kent and England.  This list is intended only to set out those records that are available via at least two relatively easy-to-access avenues.  If you have used or discover a record that would be of benefit to other researchers, that is not on this list, please send me an email with the details of the archive - name, address and archival call number.

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