© Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum
Wickhurst Manor included a large house and farmland, dating back to Medieval times. In 1611 it had 160 acres.
A surviving document from 1642 states that Wickhurst rents were to be received ‘on St. Andrew’s Day at sunrising at a maple tree standing in Leigh parish in Kent near the highway leading from Sevenoaks to Penshurst.’ The rent collector is named as Thomas Medhurst, who has been given ‘a horn to summon in the tenants with, according to the customs of the said manor’.