Westerham
Westerham is a town and also civil parish in the Sevenoaks Area of Kent, England, situated 5 miles (8 km) west of Sevenoaks. It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was stated in the Domesday Book in a Norman form, Oistreham (compare Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). Ham is Old English for a village or homestead, therefore Westerham means a western homestead. The River Darent moves via the community, and also formerly powered 3 watermills. Westerham was house to the Black Eagle Brewery, which was taken over by Taylor Walker & Co in the 1950s, becoming part of Ind Coope in 1959 and also enclosing 1965. Yeast from the brewery was maintained at the National Collection of Yeast Societies and also is currently used by the present day Westerham Brewery which was established in 2004 by Robert Wicks. The brewery generates a variety of ales, including Westerham British Bulldog. Westerham was residence to Crayford Engineering, a successful vehicle conversion business, from 1962 to the 1980s, working from a workshop at Squerryes Mede.
