Pembury, Kent

Description
Pembury, a village and a parish in Kent The village stands 4 miles SE of Tunbridge, and 5 from Paddock Wood station on the S.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge Wells. The parish contains also the hamlet of Lower Pembury Green. Acreage, 3650; population of the civil parish, 1662; of the ecclesiastical, 1657. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Kenward and Grovehurst are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £340 with residence. The parish church stands about 1 1/2 mile from the village, includes Norman portions, contains several very old and curious monuments, and has been well restored. St Peter's chapel of ease to the parish church stands in the S, was erected at a cost of about £2500, and is in the Later English style, with tower and spire. There are Wesleyan and Nonconformist chapels, almshouses, and two clubs for working men. A reservoir for supplying Tunbridge Wells with water is situated in this parish.