BRASTED, a parish partly in the hundred of
WESTERHAM, but chiefly in the hundred of CODSHEATH,
lathe of SUTTON at HONK, county of KENT, 5
miles (W. by N.) from Seven-Oaks, containing 970 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the exempt deanery
of Shoreham, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in
the king's books at £22. 6. 8. The church is dedicated
to St. Martin. The parish is divided into Brasted-
Upland and Brasted-Weald, and connected with it
is a district called Brasted-Ville, not dependent on any
hundred, having a high constable of its own. The
rivers Eden and Darent flow through the parish. A
fair is held annually on Holy Thursday.