The Gatehouse website record for Hertrigge, parish of Ebney

In the civil parish of Stone cum Ebony/Tenterden. In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).

Emery writes 'In 1487 John Guldeford received a licence to crenellate his manors of Brockley, Halden, Hawridge and Tenterden in Kent.' The actual licence refers to Hertrigge, parish of Ebney. The parish is more normally spelt Ebony or alternatively Ebeney and was SE of Tentenden. Most of the medieval parish was in the modern CP of Stone cum Ebony but a significant hamlet, Reading Street, is now in Tenterden CP. Nothing now survives of village or its church, which was on a hill called Chapel Bank at TQ928297. Hasted records Guldeford as holding a manor called Brocket but I am unable to identify a precise location or to be certain that this is identical with Hertrigge. Nothing in the list of names from the 6 inch OS maps of Kent, published by Kent Archaeological Society, seems to be a corruption of either Hertrigge or Brocket. I consider it doubtful that any significant building took place here as this was a minor holding of Guldeford's.

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