TURNHAM, (Kent) or THURNHAM, 2 m. and half N. W. of Maidstone, anciently bel. to Sir Rob. Thurnham, who settled it on the
college of Lingfield in Surry, before he accompanied K. Richard I. to the Holy-Land; but after the Diss. Edward VI.
granted it to Sir Edward Wotton, whose ancestor, Sir Nicholas, had some part of this manor before, which came to him in
the R. of Henry IV. by the marriage of the heiress of Robert Corbie. This Sir Edward left the whole to his great grandson,
Thomas Ld. Wotton, who settled it on his daughter, that married Henry Ld. Stanhope, after whose death she sold it to Mr.
Godden of London.