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EDENBRIDGE, a market town in the Sevenoaks parliamen tary division of Kent, England, 281 m. S.S.E. of London on the Southern railway, and I o m. W. of Tonbridge on the line to Redhill. Pop. of civil parish (1921) 2,89o. It is pleasantly situated on the river Eden, an affluent of the Medway, in a valley between the Ragstone hills and the Forest ridges, on the Surrey border. The church of St. Peter and St. Paul is principally Per pendicular. The town has considerable agricultural trade and a chalybeate spring which is little used. Hever castle, 2 m. S.W., is a beautiful moated mansion of the i 5th and 16th centuries, but occupying the site of an earlier structure. This was rebuilt by Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, whose grandson, Sir Thomas, was father of Anne, second wife of Henry VIII., who here spent much of her life before her marriage and was visited by the king. There is a chapel of her family in the fine parish church of Hever. Not far distant is the modern Chiddingstone castle, on an ancient site. A block of sandstone in the park is called the "chiding stone," tradition asserting it to be a prehistoric seat of judgment.

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