SOMERHILL, (Kent) in the p. of Tunbridge, 3 m. from Maidstone, has been a fine seat, and was anciently appointed by the Earls of Glocester as a lodge for the bailiff of their great chace of Tunbridge-forest. Being afterwards forfeited to the crown, Q. Elizabeth granted it to Sir Fran. Walsingham, by whose daughter it went in marriage to Sir Philip Sidney, and afterwards it came to the Burghs, Earls of Clanrickard and St. Alban's. They say it bel. once to the family of the Villiers, Ds. of Buckingham. There is a prospect from it of above 50 m.