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A View of the ParishYour Online Parish Clerk for Barham is: VACANT. Barham is in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Bridge. The church is named for St. John the Baptist with registers commencing 1558. Barham is a village, a parish, downs, and a sub-district in the district of Bridge, Kent. The village stands in a valley, under the downs, about 3-1/2 miles southwest of Adisham station on the London, Chatham and Dover railway, and 6 miles southeast of Canterbury; and has a post office under Canterbury and a money order office and a savings bank. The parish comprises 4,600 acres. Real property, £6,058. Population, 1,090. Houses, 232. The subsoil is chiefly chalk. The manor, Barham Court, is on the river Medway near East Farleigh rail station, 4-1/2 miles southwest of Maidstone. It belonged early to the see of Canterbury; and was held by Reginald Fitzurse, one of Thomas à Becket's murderers, and afterwards by Fitzurse's descendants, the de Berhams, till the time of James I; passed to successively the Botilers, the Bouveries, and Sir Charles Middleton who was created Lord Barham; descended to Lord Barham's grandson, the present Earl of Gainsborough; and is now the property and seat of the Right Honourable T. Pemberton Leigh. The mansion on the property is modern. Other principal residences are Broome Park, the seat of Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, Bart., and the property belonging to George C. Dering, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £800 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is early decorated English; and has a lofty spire and some neat monuments. Digges, the mathematician, had connexion with the parish; and Admiral Sir T. Thomson was a native. Barham downs extend from southeast to northwest, along the line of Watling Street; and are about 3 miles long. Numerous barrows are on them, of times from early British to later Saxon, showing them to have been scenes of many ancient public events. King John, with his army of 60,000 men, encamped on them, in 1213, prior to the resigning of his crown. Simon de Montford assembled his troops on them, in the time of Henry III, to oppose the landing of Queen Eleanor. Queen Henrietta Maria, after her landing at Dover in 1625, was met on them by the flower of the English nobility. Several regiments lay posted on them, in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, to oppose his threatened invasion from Boulogne. Traces of the camp of these regiments, and also a small square ancient camp, still exist. The Canterbury races, now of little note, are held on the downs; and the election of members for East Kent takes place on them. The sub-district comprises thirteen parishes. Acres 22,871. Population 6,296. Houses 1,257.1
The Barham village website has additional information.
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