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Ide Hill occurs as village within Kent, standing on one of a greatest points of the sandstone ridge about 5 miles south-south-west of Sevenoaks. Its title number one appears inside record in 1250 as Edythehelle. These are an eponymous denoting 'Edith's hill', from either a Old English hyll 'hill'.
A church is comparatively modern. the village got a chapel within 1807, built by the so Bishop of London; St Mary's church was built in 1865 and "has the distinction of being the highest church in Kent" [The Kent Village Book]. There are many old buildings around a sloping village green, including the 18th century Cock Inn.
Both of Kent's stores of interest come touching Ide Hill: Bough Beech Reservoir & Emmetts Garden.
Bough Beech Reservoir was completed around 1969. The big vicinity around these are leased to the Kent Trust for Nature and severity Conservation as a nature and severity reserve.
Emmetts Garden is in the care of the National Trust. It was placed call at the late 19th century. There is a stone seat touching a village church to commemorate Octavia Hill, one of the Trust's founders.
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