The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5. Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1798.
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'The hundred of Twyford: Introduction', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5, (Canterbury, 1798) pp. 91. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/p91 [accessed 20 April 2024]
THE HUNDRED OF TWYFORD.
SOUTHWARD from the hundred of Little field lies that of Twyford, written in the book of Domesday, Tuiferde, and so called from the two fords which were formerly over the two streams of the Medway, just above Yalding in this hundred.
THIS HUNDRED contains within its bounds the
parishes of
1. NETTLESTED,
2. WATRINGBURY,
3. TESTON, and
4. WEST FARLEIGH;
And part of the parishes of
5. EAST PECKHAM,
6. YALDING, and
7. HUNTON.
And all the churches of those parishes.
It likewise contains part of the parishes of BRENCHLEY, CAPEL, MARDEN, PEMBURY, and TUDELEY, the churches of which are in other hundreds.