It lies within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within London’s Metropolitan Green Belt.

[3] Radnor House, previously known as Combe Bank, is a Grade I listed Palladian mansion dating from 1728; it was designed by Roger Morris and built for Colonel John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll.

[5] Around 1910 an aerodrome with a three-bay timber-framed corrugated-iron clad hangar was opened north of Chevening Road, 51°16′55″N 0°07′40″E / 51.2820°N 0.1277°E / 51.2820; 0.1277, by Russian Prince Serge de Bolotoff, a sales representative for Albatros Flugzeugwerke, Berlin, who had gained experience of aircraft design at the Voisin works, Billancourt, France and at Brooklands in Surrey.

He set up a small aircraft factory at Sundridge Aerodrome shortly before World War One in the three-bay hangar.

Around 1927 the factory building became a bus depot,[9] but during World War II it reverted to military use with the Royal Air Force, providing storage and salvage facilities for crash-damaged aircraft.