Sevenoaks Weald Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Sevenoaks Weald
Static Image Name:The Windmill, Sevenoaks Weald - geograph.org.uk - 1378167.jpg
Static Image Caption:The Windmill public house in central Weald
Region:South East England
Coordinates:51.2379°N 0.1913°W
Post Town:SEVENOAKS
Postcode Area:TN
Postcode District:TN14
Dial Code:01732
Constituency Westminster:Sevenoaks
Population:1,474
Population Ref:[1]
1,222 (2011 Census)[2]
Civil Parish:Sevenoaks Weald
Shire District:Sevenoaks
Shire County:Kent

Sevenoaks Weald is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the Low Weald, immediately south of Sevenoaks town, with the village of Sevenoaks Weald at its centre. It was formed in 1894 from part of the ancient parish of Sevenoaks.

The village was originally named simply Weald.

The parish church is dedicated to St George. It was built in 1821 and was provided as a chapel of ease so that parishioners did not have the long climb to St. Nicholas, the parish church of Sevenoaks. Land and funds were given for the chapel and churchyards by the Lambarde family. Architect Thomas Graham Jackson added a chancel in 1871; the funds were provided by the Hodgson family. Weald Methodist Church on the village green opened in 1843; and also in the village is a former Brethren Gospel Hall dating from 1875 and the former St Edward the Confessor's Roman Catholic Church.

Long Barn is a property with a historic garden, begun in 1915 by Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and further developed by Edwin Lutyens in 1925.[3] The nearest train station is Sevenoaks.

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  1. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=549975&c=Sevenoaks+Weald&d=14&e=15&g=459160&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1195288855835&enc=1 2001 census
  2. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 19 September 2016. Office for National Statistics . Neighbourhood Statistics.
  3. http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,2143/tab,summary/Itemid,293/ Parks and Gardens