General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir
Name Suffix:<NSFX> De Brenchesle of Bayhall
Note:
Bayhall has been the residence of many well known families
, the earliest being the Culpepers and the Duke of Buckingh
am. Later it belonged to the Amherst family.
The manor of Bayhall lay in the valley on the south side o
f the village of Pembury. Ruins of the house were still t
o be seen until about 1960. At this time one of the nationa
l newspapers told a rather exaggerated story of its being h
aunted. People coming to see it made themselves such a nuis
ance and rendered it so unsafe, that the owner got permissi
on to clear it away. The ghost was supposed to be that of A
nne West, the last person to reside in the mansion.
A picture of the mansion at Bayhall may be seen in the Tunb
ridge Wells Museum.
Sources: Hasted's Kent, Vol. 5, p. 271, and History of Pemb
ury, 1984, Mary E. Standen