Ide Hill
Ide Hill | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | SEVENOAKS | |
Postcode district | TN14 | |
Dialling code | 01732 | |
Police | Kent | |
Fire | Kent | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament | ||
Ide Hill is a village within the
The church is relatively modern. The village had an
Ide Hill Football Club, who have teams in the Kent County League, the Sevenoaks & District League and the Crowborough & District Junior League, play their home games on the Ide Hill Recreation Ground (behind the Cock Inn). As per the church, the football pitch "has the distinction of being the highest in Kent".
Two of Kent's places of interest are near Ide Hill: Bough Beech Reservoir and Emmetts Garden.
Bough Beech Reservoir was completed in 1969. A large area round it is leased to the
Emmetts Garden is in the care of the
In his 1933 memoir Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell reports that Ide Hill was notorious for being the worst “spike” (a casual ward or homeless shelter) in all of England. Although in a footnote he confesses to finding it 'not so bad'.[3]
Goathurst Common
Goathurst Common is a hamlet within the civil parish of Sundridge with Ide Hill. It lies to the east of Ide Hill. Its road, Bessels Green Road, leads through Whitley Forest to the village of Bessels Green, near Sevenoaks to the south. There is no current chapel or church. The hamlet did have two but they have been converted into houses. It is a mainly residential area consisting of about sixty houses built since the early 1920s.[4] Goathurst Common is separated from Ide Hill by Stubbs Wood.
The woodlands around Goathurst Common were devastated during the
Nearest settlements
References
- ^ [21 July 1806 according to Bishop Beilby Porteus Notebooks MS2104, fol. 82]
- ^ Source of quotation: 'The Kent Village Book'
- ^ Chapter 35, p. 202
- ^ "Goathurst Common-Ide Hill". www.bbc.co.uk. 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2013.