West Farleigh, Kent
West Farleigh Hall
Several of the Aylesford Culpepers were associated
with West Farleigh.
According to parish
registers, John Culpeper (1560-?), son of Edward (who
buried at West Farleigh) and Parnilla (daughter and heiress
of Thomas Coveney of West Farleigh), had four children
baptized at West Farleigh: Diana in 1592, Edward in 1593.
John in 1595 and Robert in 1596.
West Farleigh Hall, marked on
the map as an antiquity, needs to be researched to see if it might
have been a
Culpeper home. It may have originally belonged to the Coveney's and
possibly came to the Culpepers through Edward Culpeper's
marriage to Parnilla, heiress of Thomas Coveney.
Location: At the intersection of the
B-2163 and Smith's Hill Road
National Grid Coordinates:
TQ
714 526 |
 All
Saints Church
Ancient Parish
Original registers from 1539
Location:
National Grid Coordinates: TQ 715 535
Photograph
taken by Warren Culpepper, March 2000. |
West Farleigh, Kent
1831 Topographical Dictionary
FARLEIGH (WEST), a parish in the hundred of TWYFORD, lathe of
AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 3¼ miles (W.S.W.) from Maidstone,
containing 364 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is principally in
the early style of English architecture. This place, which rises
gradually from the southern bank of the Medway, has been the
residence of genteel families for centuries; the houses are prettily
detached, and there are communications with the opposite side of the
river by three bridges, viz., Barnjet, St. Helen's, and Teston.
Location:
10 miles N of Goudhurst and 2 miles SW of Maidstone on the
B2010.
National Grid Coordinates:
TQ
715 535 |
Last Revised:
02 Jan 2015
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