EDENBRIDGE  , a

market town in the south-western parliamentary division of Kent, England, 26 m . S.S.E. of London, on the South-Eastern & Chatham, and the London, Brighton & South Coast railways . Pop . (1901) 2546 . It is pleasantly situated on the river Eden, an affluent of the Medway, in a valley between the Ragstone Hills and the Forest Ridges . The church of St Peter and St Paul is principally Perpendicular . The town, which has considerable agricultural trade, possesses a chalybeate spring, but this is little used . Two miles from the town is Hever Castle, a beautiful moated mansion dating from the 15th and x6th centuries, but occupying the site of an earlier structure . This was rebuilt by Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, whose grandson, Sir Thomas, was father of Anne, second wife of Henry VIII., who here'spent much of her life before her marriage; and was visited several times by the king . There is a chapel of her family in the fine parish church of Hever . Not far distant is the modern Chiddingstone Castle, on an ancient site . A block of sandstone in the park is called the " chiding stone," tradition asserting it to be a prehistoric seat of judgment .