The Penshurst Living Archive is to provide a documentary history of the school under the section called Places. I will keep you up to date as we add new items to the Archives catalogue.
Growing up at Doubleton Jan 2017 Growing up in Penshurst I was born at Doubleton Farmhouse, at the far end of Doubleton Lane in the mid fifties. My parents bought the house in 1954, and moved there with my two older sisters Joanna and Tessa, dogs and ponies. My father used to drive up the farm track (which ...
John Dawson, 18th century hop excise official John Dawson used to sit in Tunbridge Wells as a hop excise official from 1722 onwards. Whenever he did so he took lodgings in Penshurst with a widow and her daughter. While staying in the village he kept a diary which includes lists of inhabitants and of housekeepers. ...
A lifetime farming in Penshurst – Sam Frederick A tribute by his son (and successor) Simon given at Sam’s memorial service in July 2016 Sam Frederick started farming in Penshurst in 1938 at the age of twelve. he remained active until shortly before his death in the summer of 2016, a Penshurst farming career of nearly eighty ...
SOUTH PARK History of the House South Park was originally part of the Great Park of Penshurst Place. This together with outlying lands (including Forde Place Farm, Moody’s Farm, Crouchlands and Courtlands) that was bought by a wealthy London wine Merchant, Richard Allnutt, in 1770. A year later, having married a Miss Spencer of Redleaf, he built ...
The Nunnery, Smarts Hill, Penshurst The Nunnery is a Grade II listed 16th century timber framed house located to the south west of the village centre on Smarts Hill. The house has been in continuous occupation since it was built and attached as a pdf is a comprehensive history of the house and the surrounding area. The other ...
