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Sundridge is a village within the civil parish of Sundridge with Ide Hill, in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The village is located on the A25 road to the east of Westerham. Its church is Anglican and dedicated to St Mary. ==Notable residents== *Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), the daughter of Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway and Caroline Conway, who would become a noted sculptor and the owner of Horace Walpole's famous estate, Strawberry Hill.〔Margaret King, ''Ill Fares the Land; A Social History of the Village of Sundridge from 1719-1826'' (Sundridge: Friends of St. Mary's Church, 2008), 71.〕 * Rt Hon Michael Fallon, MP (born 1952), Secretary of State for Defence since 2014 *Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), the youngest brother of the famous poet William Wordsworth. Christopher would later become Bishop of Lincoln.〔Margaret King, ''Ill Fares the Land; A Social History of the Village of Sundridge from 1719-1826'' (Sundridge: Friends of St. Mary's Church, 2008), 71.〕 *Beilby Porteus (1731–1809), Bishop of London and leading abolitionist, who spent several weeks in the autumn of each year at his small country home at Bishop's Court, Sundridge.〔Margaret King, ''Ill Fares the Land; A Social History of the Village of Sundridge from 1719-1826'' (Sundridge: Friends of St. Mary's Church, 2008), 57.〕 He died at Fulham Palace and was buried at St. Mary's Church, where his tomb lies in the churchyard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sundridge, Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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