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54  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: -13.15px;">Welcome to the community archive for Chelsfield. Here you can find a </span>
55  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 7.17px;">wealth of information about the history of the village and the surrounding </span>
56  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 27.49px;">area. </span>
57  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 68.13px;">This website is by and for people who live in Chelsfield and people with an </span>
58  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 88.45px;">interest in the history of the village and neighbouring areas. Chelsfield is in </span>
59  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 108.77px;">the south east of the London Borough of Bromley, close to the border with </span>
60  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 129.09px;">Sevenoaks.</span>
61  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 169.72px;">To get started you can look at the <a href="brief_introduction.htm" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >brief introduction</a> to the history of </span>
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63  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 210.36px;">own reminiscences.</span>
64  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 251px;">The website is small at the moment but growing all the time. It relies on </span>
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69  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s1" style="top: 372.91px;">Geoffrey Copus, who have been very generous in allowing use of their </span>
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131  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: -11.77px;"><span id="Bubble:32Text1"></span>This is the seal of Ernulf </span>
132  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 4.93px;">de Cielesfeld from a </span>
133  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 21.63px;">Charter of 1143. The </span>
134  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 38.33px;">Charter is thought to be </span>
135  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 55.03px;">the earliest known </span>
136  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 71.73px;">document apart from </span>
137  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 88.43px;">the Domesday Book </span>
138  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 105.13px;">which refers to </span>
139  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 121.83px;">Chelsfield. The seal </span>
140  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 138.53px;">depicts a knight on </span>
141  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 155.23px;">horseback in a helmet </span>
142  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 171.93px;">and shield, the Latin </span>
143  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 188.63px;">inscription reads “the </span>
144  <span class="xr_tl xr_s6" style="top: 205.33px;">seal of Ernulf, Lord of </span>
145  <span class="xr_tl xr_s7" style="top: 222.03px;"><span class="xr_s6" style="">Chelsfield”</span><span class="xr_s8" style="">. </span></span>
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157  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s11" style="top: 7.17px;">Images courtesy of Philip Lane</span>
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177   <li><a href="index.htm">Welcome</a>
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198   </li>
199   <li><a href="places_well_hill_mission.htm">Well Hill Mission Chapel</a>
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201   <li><a href="places_chelsfield_station.htm">Chelsfield Station</a>
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203   <li><a href="places_st_martins.htm">St Martin of Tours</a>
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205   <li><a href="places_chelsfield_bakery.htm">Chelsfield Bakeries</a>
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225   <li><a href="people_william_waring.htm">William Waring</a>
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241   <li><a href="living_memories.htm">Bob Hogben</a>
242   </li>
243   <li><a href="living_memories_2.htm">Philip Lane</a>
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255   <li><a href="events_beating_the_bounds.htm">Beating the Bounds</a>
256   </li>
257   <li><a href="events_st_martins_lightning.htm">St Martins lightning strike</a>
258   </li>
259   <li><a href="chelsfield_fair.htm">Chelsfield Fair</a>
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261   <li><a href="events_fraud_and_forgery.htm">Fraud and forgery</a>
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