Westerham
Westerham is a town as well as civil parish in the Sevenoaks Area of Kent, England, located 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Sevenoaks. It is recorded as early as the 9th century, as well as was pointed out in the Domesday Book in a Norman form, Oistreham (contrast Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). Ham is Old English for a town or homestead, and so Westerham implies a westerly homestead. The River Darent flows with the town, and previously powered three watermills. Westerham was house to the Black Eagle Brewery, which was taken control of by Taylor Walker & Co in the 1950s, entering into Ind Coope in 1959 and enclosing 1965. Yeast from the brewery was preserved at the National Collection of Yeast Cultures and is currently used by the present day Westerham Brewery which was established in 2004 by Robert Wicks. The brewery produces a range of ales, consisting of Westerham British Bulldog. Westerham was residence to Crayford Engineering, a successful car conversion firm, from 1962 to the 1980s, working from a workshop at Squerryes Mede.