Reference Books & Links

 

Reference Books & Publications on the History of Pembury

Pembury Village News         Published Quarterly by Pembury Parish Council since 1974.

Pembury Hospital WWII Through the Eyes of Frank Stanford        Amethyst Moon Publishing 2012

Pembury in Old Picture Postcards     Mary Standen      European Library  2001

Pembury, Our Village, Our Future        Pembury Parish Council  1990

Pembury in the Past       Mary Standen        Meresborough Books  1984

A History of Pembury       Mary Standen   1984    revised from 1947 edition.

WI Scrapbook 1965    One master copy produced and still held by Pembury WI

Bygone Pembury     The Pembury Society 2022

 

Various online links containing Pembury history and Pembury interest.

Please note that links like these sometimes die when the owners of web sites change their pages.

From: ‘Parishes: Pembury’, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 260-272.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62905&strquery=colepeper.

Bayhall Manor, Culpepers ….  http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/places/pembury.htm

Wikipedia    …..     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembury

Tonbridge Workhouse  ….   http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Tonbridge/

History of Pembury (Wiki Kent) ….   http://www.wikikent.co.uk/history-of-Pembury-Kent.shtml

Listed Buildings …..  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/kent/pembury

Pembury School …….  http://www.pembury.kent.sch.uk/history.php

People from Pembury …..  http://www.curiousfox.com/vill100/Kent44991_1.html

Pembury Genealogical Records …  http://forebears.co.uk/england/kent/pembury

Public Houses in Pembury  ….   http://pubshistory.com/KentPubs/Pembury/

Pembury Microfilm Record  …..  http://www.londonfhc.org/content/catalogue?p=England,England,Kent,Pembury&f=1

Pembury Mill, Turner, Tate Gallery ….  http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-pembury-mill-kent-d08116

National Archives ….  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=051-p286&cid=-1#-1

Martyrs of Kent – Margery Polley  …… http://www.medwaymartyrs.com/themartyrsofkent.htm

Milestone 34     ……   http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-438494-milestone-at-tq-612-422-pembury-kent
.                            ……  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-438494-milestone-at-tq-612-422-pembury-kent/osmap

English Heritage – Listed Buildings       http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/mapsearch.aspx               Search for Pembury

Images of England – Listed Buildings in Pembury    http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/QuickResults/Default.aspx?qs=pembury

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Links to other local history web sites

Leigh Historical Society

Tonbridge History Society

Tonbridge Weather from 1692

Tonbridge Station

Tonbridge – Here’s History

Horesemonden History

Highbrooms 1      Highbrooms 2

Tunbridge Wells Past & Present

Tunbridge Wells – The Weald              The Weald – other Kent towns

 

Links to help with reading maps

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/maps-and-geographic-resources/map-abbreviations.html

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/education-research/resources/map-symbol-sheets.html

http://www.ros.gov.uk/public/about_us./foi/manuals/plans/docs/plans33.htm 

http://www.ancestry-maps.com/page-legend.asp

 

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Please advise of any new finds –          Tony Nicholls      email addresses at bottom of the page.
Please report any dead links.  Web sites and web pages may change without warning.