SURRENDEN, (Kent) on the N. W. side of Ashford, was for many generations the seat of the Surrendens, who sold it to
cardinal Kemp; by whom it was settled on his college at Wye, but by Hen. VIII. granted to Sir Maurice Dennis, who
alienated it to Sir Henry Aucher, who sold it to Philip Chewte; in which family it continued, till it acquired the name of
Surrenden-Chewte; and now that of Dering, by being the seat of Sir Edw. Dering, Bt.