Hever, Kent
Coordinates: 51°11′01″N 0°06′38″E / 51.183480°N 0.110550°E
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Hever shown within Kent |
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| Population | 1,136 |
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| Civil parish | Hever |
| District | Sevenoaks |
| Shire county | Kent |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
- This article is about Hever, Kent. For Hever, Belgium, see Hever, Belgium.
Hever is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the River Eden, a tributary of the River Medway, east of Edenbridge. It is 5 miles (8 km) by 1-mile (1.6 km) in extent, and 3,062 acres (12.39 km2) in area. The parish includes the villages of Four Elms, Hever itself, and Markbeech, and has a population of 1,136.[1]
The place-name 'Hever' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 814, where it appears as 'Heanyfre'; the name means 'high edge'.[2]
Hever contains Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII.
There are three parish churches, one at each village. All are one united benefice. In the parish church of St Peter is the tomb of Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I.
References [edit]
- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish headcounts : Sevenoaks Retrieved 2009-11-15
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.237.
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