- 9 ·37o . • . [KELL1' S . Berkeley Portman, of Park, and Viscount Gage. 9 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Framfield, The soil is mixed and clay; subsoil, sandy, clay and 2 miles distant sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, peas and Post Office, Pale House Common.-J ahn Martin, sub~ hops. The arEa is 6,447 acres of land and 21 of water; postmaster. Letters arrive from Uckficld about 7·45 rateable value, £8,978 ; the population in 1901 was a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; box cleared at 12.55 & 7·55 p.m.; r,6r6. sundays, 7-40 p.m. Framfield, 2 miles distant, is t'he . Parish Clerk, Frank Hills. nearest money order & telegraph office Wall Box, in village, cleared at 12.50 & 7.50 p.m.; sun­ BLACKBOYS is a village in the parish of Framfield, 2 day, 9 p.m miles east. There is a Baptist chapel at Skaines hill, Pillar Letter Boxes :-High Cross, cleared at 7 a.m. & ·erected in 1875, with sittings for 250 persons, and a 12.50 & 8 p.m. ; sundays, 7 a.m. ; Gorse cottage, small Wesleyan chapel seating about ISO persons. Blackboys, cleared at 7· 15 a. m. & 6.20 p.m.; sun~ Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Fanny Brooker, sub­ days, 7.15 a.m.; Sand Hill, cleared at II.5o a.m. & postmistress. Letters arrive from at 6-40 7.30 p.m. week days only & Eason's green, cleared at • a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 12-45, 6 so & 9·I5 12.30 & 7.30 p.m. week days only . p.m.; sundays, arrive 6-40 a.m. & dispatched at g.rs Police Station, William John f'tevem, constable p.m. Box closes at 9 p.m Public Elementary Schools . • Post & M. 0. OfficEl, Elackboys (Letters should have Framfield {mixed), built in r85o, for 150 children; aver~ Sussex added) .-Albcrt Edward Burgess, sub-post­ age attend:mce, 130; George F. Hemming, master . master. Letters arrive from 'l'unbridge Wells at 4·5 Blackboys (mixed), built in 1875, enlarged in 1899, for a.m. & from Uckfield at 3 p.m.; dispatched at 12.40, 147 children; average attendance, 99; Alfred W. 6.30 & 9 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 4·5 a.m. & disp:J.tched Marsh, master · • FRAMFIELD. Davis 1'\orman, nurseryman Siggs Thomas, assistant overseer, in~ (Marked thus * should be addressed Eade George, farmer, Brook house come tax & rate collector Eade Lather, farmer & hop grower, Stephens Jonah, farmer, Upper Brook •. Hall and, Sussex.) Little Streele farm House farm - PUIVATE RESIDENTS. Eade William, farmer & hop grower, Stevens Stephen, brick maker Baxendale Francis Hugh J.P. Fram- Hempstead *Taylor Dnl.Peter,frmr. Croxted frm field Place Farrant Friend, farmer, Eason's grn Townsend William farm bailiff to -*Clarke John, Rock mead Fitch & Robinson, farmers, The G. M. Dodd esq. New place Dawes Mrs. Frank, Hailwell Grange farm *Wren Chas. farmer, Sand Hill farm Dodd George Morton, New Place Framfield Pari,sh Club (Charles Van Eyre Rev. Paul Daniel D.D. (vicar), Loock, sec) BLACKBOYS. Vicarage Framfield Stares (Waiter F. White· Cowland William, Sharelands Feldwick Mrs. Uptons man, manager) Groves J ames, Brownings manor. ·Hanmer Thomas Wm. Framfield lo Graver Frank, farmer T N P.O. 8 Buxted Heinemann Rt. D. Gate House farm Beaver George, farmer & hop grower, Morriss Henry, Stone bridge Keef Herbert William, Hilbre mount Uptons mill Reid Frank, River side ()sborne Sir Francis bart. J.P. The Hills Frank, hlacksmith & parish clerk Somerset Fredk. W. Gorse cottage Grange Holloway William,gamekeeper to Maj. Stops Sidney, The Poplars -*Peskett Arthur William C. Simla R. L. Thornton Tuely Geo. Natlhaniel, Mt. Pleasant Plenderleith Mrs. Oakdene Hopkins James, jun. builder COMMERCIAL. Read Stanley Hopkins James, steward to Major B. Robertson Herbert Rennie M.D. The L. Thornton, Newlands, High eras~ Bald win Sarah Ann (Mrs.), grocer Highlands Knights Rn Elijah & Son, nurserymen Crowhurst Thomas, veterinary sur- Robinson Robert D. farmer, see Fitch Streeter Ebemzer, frmr.Pounceley fro geon & countv veterinarv inspe<'tor & Robinson Tuppeny William, blachsrnith for Uckfield division of Saunders Geo. Hy. farmer,Bridglands Whefltley Frank. boot maker is a villa~e. prtrish and head of a petty ses- I in r88I a brass eagle lectern was presenteri, in memory -sional division, situat!•d on the brow of a hill, on the i of Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe K.G., G.C.B. who died .road to Hastings, with a station, I~ mile-~ south-east I at Fr1mt Cnnrt, August r4, r88o, aged 93: the interior from the vi.l1a[!'e, _on the Hastint?"s and Tonhridge branch was repaired and re-seated in I88o at a cost of {,I,200, ·of the South Eastern railway, 2~ milPs south from Tnn- and has 300 sittings. The register dates from the year bridge Wells and 36 from , and is partly in Kent 1543. The living is a rectory. net yearly value £520, (hnndred of Wa~hling"stone), and partly in the Eastern with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Aber­ division of Sussex, in the hundrPd of RotherfiP!d, rape ! gavenny K.G. and hPld sim~e Tgor by the RPv. RPgina.ld of , union of Ticehurst. eounty court district of Edmund Walker M.A. of Chri!rl; Church, Oxford. The -Tunbridge Wells and in East Grinstead rural deanPry, rectory hou~e was considerably enlarg"ed in I 845. and :archdeaconry of and diocese of ChiC'hester. The I in r88o a sum of about £r,ooo wa~ expended in repai,rs church of St. Alban is (}{ Rtone, in the Early English and alterations. There is a Baptist chapPl, erected in and DACorated styles. and has a t.ower containing a clock 1905, and an nndenominational chapPl, erected in 1874·

and 6 bells: there are several mPmorifll windows, 8!' well ! In the pari11h is a reservoir for supplying Tunbridge as monuml'nts to the Nevill, Weller and Brown families: I Wells witr water. In 1862 a deep well with wheel • . ..