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 Westerham is a hill-top market town which has greatly benefitted from the diversion of traffic on to the M25. The green at Westerham It has a sloping triangular green where the statues of General Wolfe and Winston Churchill are situated. Surrounding the green are antique shops and tea rooms; a church with rare 14th century octagonal timber tower-steps and a General Wolfe Memorial window by Burne Jones; and below the green is the multi-gabled Quebec House. The high street has many pleasant shops and restaurants, a Tudor Inn and a Georgian Hotel. The History  General Wolfe was born in Westerham in 1726 in the vicarage which is now called Quebec House. This is a square brick gabled building of distinction belonging to the National Trust and it houses much Wolfe memorabilia. Squerryes Court, to the south, is a William and Mary building of red brick: the home of the Warde family, friends of the Wolfes. Here James Wolfe was handed his first commission. The seventeenth century market place has two old hotels facing each other: one Tudor and one Georgian.  Winston Churchill purchased Chartwell Manor in 1923 after the death of Mr William Erskine Campbell-Colquhoun. The Manor was described at the time as "a lonely spot, approached down a narrow, overgrown lane with a poor surface. The house is covered in creepers and is badly neglected...." Another celebrated inhabitant was John Frith, the reformer and friend of Tyndale who was burned in Smithfield in 1533. |
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