DIRECTORY.] KEXT. :RAINH.AM • 543 • TOLSFORD HILL is half a mile east; The Pent, a 9 a.m, Stanford is the nearest money order & tele­ quarter of ll mile .north-west. graph office, 1l miles dilrtant Wall Letter Box cleared at 7·55 a.m. & .g.1o & 6.30 p.m. The children 'Of this parish attend the school at Stanford • on week days only. Letters through Hythe arrive at Johnson Swales, The Vicarage Epps Edward, grazier Broadley Thos. farmer, Court Lodge Langford Luke, farmer & Page farms Filcher Thomas, jun. frmr.Shrine fro FOULTON is a parish and village, among the hills, 3 ings, consist of the nave of the church, with a tower on miles west from stations on the South Eastern & the north side; the refectory (turned into a dwelling Chatham railway,. in the Eastern division of the county, house by Simon Edolph in the reign of Elizabeth), and Folkestone hundred, lathe of Shepway, Wingham petty tht· cellarer's buildings : an account of this abbey is aeasional division, Dover union and county court district. given in· the ".Arch~ologia Ce.ntiana," xiv. p. 140. The The church of St. Mary has long since disappeared ; but a soil is loamy; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops ar& EU!ne, with an inscription, has been erected on its site ; the wheat, barley and oat". The area is r,o61 acres; rate­ inhabitants attend the church at .. John Sayer esq. able value, £628 ; the population in 19II was 62. of Charing, is the principal landowner. Bradsole Abbey, By the Dover (Extension) Order, 1903, dated ~ov. a religious hom~e of the order of Premonstratensian gth, 1903. part of River was added to Poulton. Canons, dedicated to SS. Mary and Rhadegund, stood Letters through Dover, via River, arrive at 7 a. m. Dover in a retired situation on a hill about 3 miles west from & Temple are the nearest telegraph offices, 3 Dover; it was founded about II93• by one of the miles distant Boswells, and was at one time a monastery of great extent and importance and its abbots were summoned Alkham is the nearest post &; money order office, r~ to Parliament at the latter end of the reign of miles distant Edward I.; the ruins, partly converted into farm build- The children of this place attend the school at .Alkham fell James, Coombe farm I Newman Henry, farmer, .Abbey farm !Stokes Thomas, farmer PRESTON (next Faversham), see Faversham. PRESTON (next Wingham) is a small parish, stand- in 1826 by the Rev. John Gregory, formerly vicar of mg on rising ground, above the marshes of the lesser Preston; another of £32 yearly, left in 1524 by Thomas­ Stour and is 2! miles south-east from Grove Ferry Watts, also a former vicar, and £12 yearly, given by station on the Ashford and Margate section of the South Robe1't Wyborne, yeoman, of Preston, in 1712. The­ Eastern and Chatham railway, 6 north-west from Sand- trustees of the late S. Elgar Toomer, who are lords of wich, and 8 north-east from Canterbury, in the Eastern the manor, and J. M. Vinson esq. o• Presto\\ Court, ate division of the county, hundred of Preston, lathe of the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, St. Augustine, Wingham petty se8sional division, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barl~ and oats union, county court district of Sandwich, and in the and market produce. The area is 1,487 a~s of land. rural deanery of East Bridge and archdeaconry of 2 of inland and 3 of tidal water; r~eable value,. Canterbury. Thl' Stour forms the western boundary £3,136; the population in 19u was ~79· ..-'" of the parish. The church of St. Mildred is of flint, Preston Street and Preston Forstall are in this parish. chieflY' ol Early .English character, and has a tower Parish Clerk, Thomas Dadds. · of the 13th century containing .'i bells: several of the Police Constable, Joseph James- ~Ias'ters. windows are stained : the church was restored in 1857• and has saBo sittings. The register dates from Post, T. & M. 0. Office. Jesse Jenner, sub-postmaster. the year 1558. The living is a vicarage with the rec- Letters from Canterbury arrive 7 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; tory Qf Elmstflne annexed, joint net yearly value £230, dispatched 8.45 a.m. & 8.10 p.m. ; ~undays, 9.30 in the gift (for this turn) of and held since rgoo by a.m.; sunday delivery at 7·35 a.m the Rev. Waiter Delmar Lindley M.A. of Magdalen Wall Letter Box, Perry Corner, cleared at 9 a.m. & 8.20 Colle!le, .Oxford, who resides at : the Dean p.m. ; snndays, 9·45 a.m and Chapter of Canterbury are the lay impropriators. Council School, Preston Street (mixed), built for I4e> The rectorial tithes are of the yearly value of children; average &ttendance, IIS; Mr. & Mrs. £5r5. The Congregational chapel was erected in 18ro Herbert Edward Bennett, master & mistress -and enlarged in 1836. The charities are of about £so The school is controlled by the Eastry Rural District yearly value,., and include a sum of £r2 1os. yeaTly, left School Attendance Committee Bing' Mrs. Preston Street Dilnot Frederick, market gardener Sayer James Edward, Swan P.H Brown Robert Frank, Preston house Drayson John, market gardene1', Sayer John, farmer Hebeler Henry .A Perry corner Shoobridge Fredk. frmr.Ladydown fm J'enner Misses, The Vicarage Dunn Henry, miller (wind & oll Sidders Thos. farmer, Preston farm Vinson John iMa:xted, Preston court •mgine), Preston mill ·Tritton Alice K. {Mrs.), fruit grower~ Gibbs Edwin, beer retailer, Padbrook The Parsonag-e COM:MERCIAL. Griggs George, boot & shoe dealer Tritton Thos. farmer, Deerson farm Belsey Albt. market gardnr. Padbrook Griggs William Henry, builder Trowell Maurice, blacksmith Bennett Herbert Edwd. schoolmaster Hadaway Thomas Henry, carpenter Vinson John Maxted, farmer & land- a; assistant overseer & clerk to the Halberson Wm. shopkeeper, Padbrook owner,Preston court & Hardacre fm Parish Councils of Preston &; Stour- Hall Henry, baker, Mill lane West John, farmer & fruit growex'p mouth Jenner Jesse, grocer & sub-postmaster Rookery farm & Sweech farm, Elm- Buddle John, market gardener Lilliott Alfred Joseph, farmer, Lang- stone Budge Waiter, boot repairer ton house Wilkinson Thomas Henry, Half Moon Bushell Richard, saddler Lilliott Frank, farmer, .Ashwood & Seven Stars P.H Castle William Henry, market gar- Lilliott Jsph. farmer, Marley Brooks Winter Arthur Bradbury, farmerp denet' & fruit grower, White's Hill Oliver Horace, shopkeeper Little Walmstone farm Parker .Alfred, farmer, Little Perry Wood Alfred, carpenter Coulter Cha1'le~t, butcher Quelch Frederick William. farmer, Dadds Thos. insur. agt. & parish clrk Perry farm NORTH PRESTON. see Faversham. QUEEN:BOROUGH, see. Isle of Sheppey, li.A.INHAK, called in ancient deeds "Renham," is a Council; water is supplied by the Rainham Water­ parish and village on the road from Chatham to Sitting­ Works Company Limited, who also provide 1oT the­ ltonrne, with a ata.timt on the South Eastern and Chatham neighbouring villages of Upchurcb, Newington, Halstow 'railway; and is If miles east-by-south from Chatbam, 6 and Hartlip~ The church of St. Margaret is in the Early­ west-by-north from Sittingbourne and 34 from London, English and later styles, and has a. tower containing 1t 'ha th& North Eastern division of the county, lathe of clock and 6 bells: the nave arcade has five Pointed arches­ .Scray,. hundred and union of Milton, Faverl!lham petty on Oclagonal piers, and a very wide wall pier with -an sessional division, county court district of Sittingbourne, octa1ronal 'pier attached to it~ th& arcade of the- chancel I'Ural deanery of Sittingbonrne, archdeaconry uf Maid~ is still le!!s uniform and its eentral areh is smaller tllan­ atone and diocese of Cantet-bury ; the parish reaches to th~ other- two:- there are tombs and monuments to tbe­ ~- crealui on the Med'way and includes several marsh Tllftons, Earl! ot Tbanet, manv of whom weFe oor'it>d in illands. The higher gtound is chalk, rising into high tbe CJ"!Pt, one to :r. Norris esq. masteJ' of the Trinifv doW'Jll 'with -perpendicnlaT -clifts on the coast line~ to House,' and his wife, and on the floor a brass fo .to-b'ir jha south are woods. The main streets of the Yillage BloOP, d. r529, besides seven other brasses, and n fine are lighted with gas, supplied by the Rochester and oaken carved chest of the !4th century: the 'tower wa; Chatham Gu Company, under the control of the Parish seriously damaged by a violent storm, Oct-ober 20, t79r: