Waltham is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

southwest of

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, England.

History

The village was once associated with the Knights Templar and was originally called Temple Waltham.Vision of Britain: Waltham, Kent.
Accessed Sep 2020.

Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester, 2nd Lord of Glamorgan, 8th Lord of Clare (4 August 1222 – 14 July 1262) was the son of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Isabel Marshal.History of Tewkesbury by James Be ...

, died at John de Criol's Manor of Asbenfield in Temple Waltham on 14 July 1262 at the age of 39; it was rumoured that he had been poisoned at the table of Piers of Savoy. During and prior to the reign of Edward III (d. 1377), the parish of Waltham was within the

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...

of Bridge. Following merger of some hundreds, by the end of the 19th century, most of the parish was within the hundred of Bridge and Petham.Vision of Britain: The Hundred of Bridge and Petham.
Accessed Sep 2020. Of the two constables for the consolidated hundred, the current monarch was lord of the annual court leet that chose a constable for the hundred of Bridge.

Amenities

St Bartholomew's Church is Grade I listed. Its windows are of the 13th and 14th century and its tower was rebuilt and restored in 1808.British History Online: Waltham (St. Bartholomew)
A Topographical Dictionary of England. Originally published by S Lewis, London, 1848. pp. 449-453. Retrieved 12 September 2020. Bus 620 runs between Canterbury,

Hastingleigh Hastingleigh is a small civil parish centred on an escarpment of the Kent Downs. The parish is three miles east of Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, extending to the hill-scape of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with vi ...

and Waltham.

References

External links

Waltham Village
Villages in Kent City of Canterbury {{Kent-geo-stub