Coordinates: 51°16′36″N 0°06′39″E / 51.276610°N 0.110790°E / 51.276610; 0.110790

Brasted
Brasted  Brasted shown within Kent
District	Sevenoaks
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Brasted (pronounced /ˈbreɪsted/)^[1] is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located to the west of Sevenoaks town. The parish includes the settlements of Brasted Chart and Toys Hill, and had a population of 1321 persons (2001 census). The single slightly winding street of the village has a number of 18th-century houses, and several antique shops. The parish church is dedicated to St Martin.

The name is recorded as Briestede in 1086 and as Bradestede around 1100; it is from Old English brād + stede and means 'broad place.'^[2]

Napoleon III lived in Brasted Place (one of only two Robert Adam houses in Kent).

During the Second World War the White Hart pub was popular with RAF fighter pilots stationed at nearby Biggin Hill.

Australian soft-drink manufacturer George Marchant was born here in 1857.

Brasted used to be served by a railway station on the branch line running between Westerham and Dunton Green that opened in 1881 and closed in 1961.

The village green at Brasted

[edit] References

1. ^ G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 20.
2. ^ A.D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford UP, 2nd ed., 1998), p. 51.

[edit] External links

• Brasted Web Site
• Brasted Chart Web Site

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