page_title: Shoreham, Kent
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Shoreham, Kent / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The bridge over the Darenth at Shoreham, showing the disused ford.
context_page_description: Shoreham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 5.2 miles north of Sevenoaks.
  The probable derivation of the name is estate at the foot of a steep slope. Steep slope was from the Saxon word scor. pronounced shor, but written sore by Norman scribes.
  The village of Shoreham contains four traditional independent pubs: Ye Olde George Inne, The King's Arms, The Two Brewers and the Crown; with another in nearby Twitton.
context_section_description: The Darent valley was one of the major areas of Stone Age settlement; Shoreham is not mentioned in the Domesday Book.
  In 1668, cricket was mentioned in a court case as being played at Shoreham, one of the sport's earliest references.
  It was also known as a smuggling area. Moreover, Shoreham was the most bombed village in the United Kingdom during the Second World War because the Army took over several manor houses for operational use.
  Papermaking was once a local industry; the mill closed finally in 1925.
caption: Shoreham bridge over the Darent
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