Westerham
Westerham is a town as well as civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, situated 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of Sevenoaks. It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was pointed out in the Domesday Book in a Norman kind, Oistreham (compare Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). Ham is Old English for a village or homestead, therefore Westerham implies a westerly homestead. The River Darent streams through the community, as well as formerly powered 3 watermills. Westerham was residence to the Black Eagle Brewery, which was taken control of by Taylor Walker & Co in the 1950s, becoming part of Ind Coope in 1959 and enclosing 1965. Yeast from the brewery was protected at the National Collection of Yeast Societies and also is now used by the existing day Westerham Brewery which was developed in 2004 by Robert Wicks. The brewery produces a range of ales, including Westerham British Bulldog. Westerham was home to Crayford Engineering, a successful cars and truck conversion firm, from 1962 to the 1980s, functioning from a workshop at Squerryes Mede.
