Edenbridge

England, United Kingdom
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Edenbridge, town (parish), Sevenoaks district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It is situated south of London near the Surrey border, on the River Eden. The first references to the town appear in 12th-century church records. In 1279 Henry III granted Edenbridge a charter for a weekly market. The Eden Valley Museum, occupying one of the oldest surviving buildings in Edenbridge, preserves local history. Its late Georgian brick facade nearly obscures the medieval timber-framed manor house underneath, and two bricked-up windows are reminders of the window tax introduced in 1696. The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, which ...(100 of 292 words)