Hever, Kent

Hever village is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the River Eden, a tributary of the River Medway, east of Edenbridge. It is 5 miles (8 km) by 1-mile (1.6 km) in extent, and 3,062 acres (12.39 km2) in area. The parish includes the villages of Four Elms, Hever itself, and Markbeech, and has a population of 1,136,[2] increasing to 1,231 at the 2011 Census.[1]

Hever

St Peter's Hever, the parish church
Hever
Location within Kent
Population1,231 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTQ4744
Civil parish
  • Hever
District
  • Sevenoaks
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townEdenbridge
Postcode districtTN8
Dialling code01732
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament

The place-name 'Hever' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 814, where it appears as 'Heanyfre'; the name means 'high edge'.[3]

Hever contains Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII.

There are three parish churches, one at each village. All are one united benefice. In the parish church of St Peter is the tomb of Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne Boleyn and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I.

References
  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  2. Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish headcounts : Sevenoaks Retrieved 15 November 2009
  3. Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.237.



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