Warehorne

Warehorne
St Matthew's church
Warehorne is located in Kent
Warehorne
Warehorne
Location within Kent
Area10.66 km2 (4.12 sq mi)
Population395 (2021)(Civil Parish)[1]
• Density37/km2 (96/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTQ986329
Civil parish
  • Warehorne
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townAshford
Postcode districtTN26
Dialling code01233
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
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51°03′39″N 0°50′07″E / 51.0609°N 0.8352°E / 51.0609; 0.8352

Warehorne is a village and civil parish in the south of the Ashford Borough of Kent, England. It is a scattered community centred on the Hamstreet to Tenterden road (B2067) around seven miles SSW of Ashford. The Royal Military Canal passes through the south of the civil parish.

The first recorded mention of Warehorne is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of Ecgberht, King of Wessex of 820 AD, where it is called Werehornas.

The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions Warehorne by name and states that a church existed there. The present church (St Matthew's) shows no sign of Saxon or of Norman work.

Warehorne was also where Reverend Richard Harris Barham, the author of The Ingoldsby Legends, resided for a short while.