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  • In this house there is a constant succession of small events, somebody is always going or coming; this morning we had Edward Bridges unexpectedly to breakfast with us, on his way from Ramsgate, where is his wife, to Lenham, where is his church, and to-morrow he dines and sleeps here on his return.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • Anne Wilson, and Mildred Wright of Cranbrook, and Mary Read, of Lenham, being legally convicted, were according to the Laws of this Nation, adjudged to be hanged, at the common place of Execution.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • The following is a communication to ` ` Notes and Queries, '' March 21, 1891: ` ` Mrs. Mary Honeywood was daughter and one of the coheiresses of Robert Waters, Esq., of Lenham, in Kent.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • "To-morrow's Lenham fete," said Agnetta to Lilac one evening.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • "You don't catch me driving into Lenham with the cart full of butter and eggs and such," she said.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • "There's not a better lot of coos, nor richer milk than what they give, this side Lenham."

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • The news even reached Lenham, carried by the active legs and eager tongue of

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • Lenham, rattling over the round stones with which the marketplace was paved.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • It seemed a wonderfully short journey, and she saw the spire of Lenham church in the distance before she had said one word to Peter, or he had broken silence except to speak to his horse.

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

  • Lenham fete Bella and she had had some confidential joke together, which they carried on by meaning nods and winks and mysterious references to

    White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

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