| Sundridge | |
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 St Mary's Church, Sundridge | |
  Sundridge Location withinKent | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SEVENOAKS |
| Postcode district | TN14 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
| 51°16′N0°08′E / 51.267°N 0.133°E /51.267; 0.133 | |
Sundridge is a village within thecivil parish ofSundridge with Ide Hill, in theSevenoaks district ofKent, England. The village is located on theA25 road to the east ofWesterham. It lies within theKent DownsArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty and withinLondon’sMetropolitan Green Belt. It is approximately 21 miles south ofLondon. Its church isAnglican and dedicated toSt Mary.[1]
Sundridge appears in theDomesday Book of 1086 as Sondresse, held by theArchdiocese of Canterbury. King Henry III granted the manor to Sir Ralph de Fremingham in the 1340s: it remained in the Fremingham and Isley family until the 17th century. The manor was then sold to the Hyde family.[2]
The Parish Church of St Mary dates from the 12th century and is Grade I listed. It was restored in the 19th century and further repaired after a fire in 1882.[3]
Radnor House, previously known as Combe Bank, is a Grade I listedPalladian mansion dating from 1728; it was designed byRoger Morris and built forColonel John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll. It was later the home of the bankerSir William Manning MP, whose sonCardinal Henry Manning grew up there.[4] Radnor House remained a private home until the 1920s, and then became a convent, anindependent school and a wedding venue.[5]
Around 1910 an aerodrome with a three-bay timber-framed corrugated-iron cladhangar was opened north of Chevening Road,51°16′55″N0°07′40″E / 51.2820°N 0.1277°E /51.2820; 0.1277, by RussianPrince Serge de Bolotoff, a sales representative forAlbatros Flugzeugwerke, Berlin, who had gained experience of aircraft design at theVoisin works,Billancourt, France and atBrooklands in Surrey. He set up a small aircraft factory at Sundridge Aerodrome shortly before World War One in the three-bay hangar. A two-seatDe Bolotoff SDEB 14 biplane was built there and registered to the de Bolotoff Company in August 1919. Around 1927 the factory building became abus depot,[9] but duringWorld War II it reverted to military use with theRoyal Air Force, providing storage and salvage facilities for crash-damaged aircraft. The aerodrome closed in 1945 but the hangar survives today in commercial use; it is believed to be the oldest aircraft hangar in the country and was designated as a Grade IIlisted building in 1988.[10][11]
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