| Tunbridge Wells Heritage Open Days 2012 - St Peter's Church, Spring Hill, Fordcombe, TN3 0SE
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Mid 19th century church closely associated with the Hardinge family, twenty three of whom lie in the churchyard. Notable members of the family commemorated at Fordcombe include Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, Governor General of India 1844 - 1848 and Alexander, 2nd Baron Hardinge, of Penshurst, who was Private Secretary to King George V, King Edward VIII, and King George VI, and was therefore at the epicentre of the 1936 Abdication crisis. |
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