LXXXII. An account of an earthquake felt at Lingfield in Surrey, and Edenbridge in Kent, on the 24th of January 1758

Abstract

In the London Chronicle, N°. 181, published on the 25th of February 1758, in page 185, is the following article: "We hear, that about two o’ clock in the morning of the 24th of last month” (which was the month of January), "an Earthquake was felt in the parishes of Worthe, and East-Grinsted, in Sussex; Lingfield, in Surrey; and Edenbridge, in Kent; and other adjacent places: which alarmed several of the inhabitants very much; but no damage ensued.”