Kemsing

Kemsing is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is twinned with Compton and lies on the scarp face of the North Downs, 20 miles south east of Central London, 4 miles north east of Sevenoaks. Also in the parish are the hamlets of Heaverham, 1 mile to the east, and Noah's Ark 0.5 miles to the south. The population of the civil parish in 2001 was 4014 persons, increasing to a population of 4,218 at the 2011 Census.
Kemsing was the birthplace, in between AD 961 and 964, of Saint Edith of Wilton, a daughter of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar I. The well at the centre of the village is dedicated to her, a plaque on the wall recording the local legend that her saintly presence has given the water healing properties. The historic village centre area around the well includes the war memorial of 1921 , a cluster of picturesque cottages and St. Edith's Hall of 1911 , the front of which is adorned with a statue of the saint and a clock which chimes the hours and bears the inscription:

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