Westerham
Westerham is a town as well as civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, located 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, and so Westerham means a western homestead. The River Darent moves via the community, and formerly powered three watermills. Westerham was residence to the Black Eagle Brewery, which was taken control of by Taylor Walker & Co in the 1950s, entering into Ind Coope in 1959 as well as enclosing 1965. Yeast from the brewery was maintained at the National Collection of Yeast Societies and also is currently used by the existing day Westerham Brewery which was developed in 2004 by Robert Wicks. The brewery creates a variety of ales, including Westerham British Bulldog. Westerham was house to Crayford Engineering, a successful car conversion company, from 1962 to the 1980s, functioning from a workshop at Squerryes Mede.
