The first John Warde bought Squerryes Court in 1731, and the Wardes still live there; for many hundreds of years the Squerryes Estate has owned a very large proportion of the land within the Parish boundaries, and has exercised a crucial influence on its development.
Until the mid-thirties most of the people of Westerham worked on the land, in domestic service or in the local Black Eagle brewery; most of them married into families living within ten miles of their own birthplace It is an interesting reflection of changing times that the average now is more like fifty miles! .......>
