Aspects of Kentish Local History

item concerns so much of the wood or chart as forms the southern boundary of Lenham. In a Charter of the year 850 (B.C.S. 459) this is called the "Cyningessnade to Feferesham," i.e. the King's Wood belonging to Faversham. If we add to this the fact that King Coenulf was the grantor in 814, and the persistence of the name King's Wood, there need be no doubt that the whole of the chart in this area was formerly appendant to the Manor of Faversham, although practically the whole hundred of Eyhorne intervenes between them. It is now seen to be a reasonable explanation of the name Sutton that it was the suth-tun of Faversham, although it actually lies south-west of the parent manor.

4. SUTTON BARON.

   If the evidence of Hasted (II. 68) is to be accepted, and I know no reason why it should not be, there was no Manor of Borden other than that whose Court Baron came to provide a second name for what is described as Sutton in Borden in 1379 and, no doubt, in earlier records also. The small Manor of Borden Hall alias Borden Court, if it really existed, seems to have been composed of the lands of the Rectory only. Borden Church, as has been shown elsewhere (Arch. Cant., XLV, 78), is called Niwecyrce (Newchurch) in the Domesday Monachorum, although it is called the church of Borden in later records. This suggests that about 1066 Sutton was the chief settlement in what is now Borden

Parish and that a new church was built about a mile away at a settlement which was only then becoming known as Borden. The parent manor of all this area is the Royal Manor of Milton, and Borden undoubtedly lies on the southern side of that manor, if we exclude the detached portion far away at Marden in the Weald. It is reasonable to suppose that Sutton Baron was so named because it was the suth-tun of Milton Regis.

5. SUTTON FARM IN DYMCHURCH.

   This place is called Sutton's Farm on the 6 in. map but is Sutton Farm on the Tithe Map and in common parlance to-day. It should no doubt be considered here even in the absence of earlier forms of the name. There was a John Suttone hereabouts in the fifteenth century (Brit. Academy, Vol. VII, 188) and it is likely that he took his name from this farm, but the farm is not mentioned. Dymchurch itself is the southern part of Eastbridge Manor and it is possible that it was actually called the suth-tun before the building of the church gave it a new name. But more evidence is needed about this settlement.

6. SUTTON HOOK WOOD.

   This presents us with a really knotty problem and we had better first get rid of the "Hook Wood" element in the name. It means a