The parish magazine of St Mary’s Church, Goudhurst often includes a section under the heading Village Echoes. These are written by members of the Society and over the years have covered a large range of historical aspects of Goudhurst and Kilndown.
To view click on the links below to open a PDF copy.
2008 Fete Parish Hall Swans on the Pond Telephone
2009 Aircraft lands at Trillinghurst Ambulance Clocks Paupers Roads
2010 Bankruptcies Birds Builders Fair Goudhurst Gas Works
Lidwells & the French Gardens Methodist Church Rifle Volunteers Roadmen Thrift Club
2011 Bricklayers Glebe Field Hop Shelters Poachers Post Office
2012 Agricultural Association Alfred Fitzhugh Fire Brigade Goudhurst Rifle Club
Goudhurst Prosecuting Society Paine’s Folly Puritans Rope Making & Rope Walk
2013 1881- population Bell ringers strike Catholic Church Charitable Gifts Cricket
Goudhurst Benefit Society Lost Pubs Pinehurst School Tollgates
2014 Butchers Early Vicars Fete 1921 Goudhurst in August 1914 Joseph Ridgway
Local History Society 50th Anniversary News from the past Parish register comments
2015 Dibley Cycle Shop Goudhurst Men at Waterloo Jaffa – Napoleon’s Horse
John Gordon Stirling Lumps & Bumps in Bedgebury Forest Parachute Mines Priors Heath
Restoration of St Mary’s Windows Stoney Lane Tattlebury Asylum
2016 Bands of Goudhurst Combwell Priory Crimean troops in Goudhurst 1856
Goudhurst Men and the Battle of the Somme James Ager Listed Headstones
Mesopotamia and Goudhurst New Road of 1768 River and Mills Scope Mead
Snippets from St Mary’s Churchyard
2017 Beresford Road Bonfire Night Canterbury Connections Chandler Sisters Crime
Early Goudhurst Postmen Election Fever Frog’s Hole Goudhurst Village Pond
Kilndown Cricket Club Notes from St Mary’s Baptism Registers William Bagshaw Harrison
2018 Amos Mercer Barnados Children Drake Panel in Kilndown Church
Egg and Poultry Depot Hilder Policeman Kilndown Methodist Chapel Lathes and Hundreds
Manors (1) Manors (2) Relief of Mafeking William Drake Women’s Organisations
2019 Charcoal Burning Daniel West and the 1811 Census Fire at the Vicarage
Irish Lay Subsidy Just a Minute Peace celebrations 1919 Rebuilding the Church Tower
2020 1851 Census of Goudhurst An Untimely Death in 1910 Good for whatever ails you
Goudhurst During the Battle of Britain – Planes In Sickness and in Health Markets and Fairs
Pillory Corner VE Day Celebrations in Goudhurst
2021 Christmas Covid 19 pandemic 2020 in Goudhurst Goudhurst & Kilndown Gymkhanas
Goudhurst Census Goudhurst Entertainment Keeping the Village Educated and Sober
2022 Artefacts from the Archives – Coat of Arms Church Door with Bullets
Curious Burials in Kilndown Jubilees Oil in Goudhurst Re-Purposed Buildings
Riseden postcards Rough Music The Grapes Water Supply
2023 Beer & Cheer Christmas Album From Kilndown to Christmas Island
Hops in Kilndown More Light on the Cenotaph Murders and Deaths at Goudhurst
New Year Changes Ox Rib of Goudhurst Scotney Dig Summer Memories
Water Colour Painting Water Colour Painting Update
2024 Great Flood of 1960 Kilndown Women’s Institute Taxi Treacherous Travel