Excerpt from History of Speldhurst
To write a connected account of this ancient and interesting Parish is now, unfortunately, an impossible task-so many records have been lost, so comparatively little has been preserved : yet I must make the attempt with such material as is to hand, and in doing so I shall endeavour to preserve a fairly chronological order.
I shall divide my work into two part, beginning with an historical description of the Church itself, and ending with an account of the Parish and all that may seem to be of general interest connected with it.
The Church.
We have no record of there having been a church here in the Saxon times, though it is likely that one existed, for the name of the parish is of Saxon origin-spelled or spelt in that language meaning "learned," and hurst or crest "a wood."
Be that as it may, a King John post built into the Rectory at the time of its restoration towards the latter part of the fifteenth century indicates the probable existence of a church at any rate as far back as a.d. 1200.
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