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item concerns so much of the wood or chart as forms
the southern boundary of Lenham. In a Charter of the year 850 (B.C.S.
459) this is called the "Cyningessnade to Feferesham," i.e.
the King's Wood belonging to Faversham. If we add to this the fact that
King Coenulf was the grantor in 814, and the persistence of the name
King's Wood, there need be no doubt that the whole of the chart in this
area was formerly appendant to the Manor of Faversham, although
practically the whole hundred of Eyhorne intervenes between them. It is
now seen to be a reasonable explanation of the name Sutton that it was
the suth-tun of Faversham, although it actually lies south-west of the
parent manor.
4. SUTTON BARON.
If the evidence of Hasted (II. 68) is to be accepted, and I
know no reason why it should not be, there was no Manor of Borden other
than that whose Court Baron came to provide a second name for what is
described as Sutton in Borden in 1379 and, no doubt, in earlier records
also. The small Manor of Borden Hall alias Borden Court, if it
really existed, seems to have been composed of the lands of the Rectory
only. Borden Church, as has been shown elsewhere (Arch. Cant.,
XLV, 78), is called Niwecyrce (Newchurch) in the Domesday Monachorum,
although it is called the church of Borden in later records. This
suggests that about 1066 Sutton was the chief settlement in what
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now Borden Parish and that a new church was built
about a mile away at a settlement which was only then becoming known as
Borden. The parent manor of all this area is the Royal Manor of Milton,
and Borden undoubtedly lies on the southern side of that manor, if we
exclude the detached portion far away at Marden in the Weald. It is
reasonable to suppose that Sutton Baron was so named because it was the
suth-tun of Milton Regis.
5. SUTTON FARM IN DYMCHURCH.
This place is called Sutton's Farm on the 6 in. map but is
Sutton Farm on the Tithe Map and in common parlance to-day. It should no
doubt be considered here even in the absence of earlier forms of the
name. There was a John Suttone hereabouts in the fifteenth century (Brit.
Academy, Vol. VII, 188) and it is likely that he took his name from
this farm, but the farm is not mentioned. Dymchurch itself is the
southern part of Eastbridge Manor and it is possible that it was
actually called the suth-tun before the building of the church gave it a
new name. But more evidence is needed about this settlement.
6. SUTTON HOOK WOOD.
This presents us with a really knotty problem and we had
better first get rid of the "Hook Wood" element in the name.
It means a |