In the summer of 1813 he moved to the neighbourhood of Holwood Hill in the parish of Keston in Kent.
The parishes that were recorded as being wholly within the Ruxley hundred were Chelsfield, Cudham, Downe, Farnborough, Foots Cray, Hayes, Keston, Knockholt, North Cray, Orpington, St. Mary Cray, St. Paul's Cray, and West Wickham.
In the early 1970s he bought the old parish school on Keston Common and the centre was renamed Keston College.
In 1805, the year of her father's death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.
Biggin Hill, Downe and Keston with Leaves Green and Nash are separate, smaller, rural settlements.