DIRECTORY.] . BRA ROORN:E. 93 Godfrey Law Lushington M.A. oi The Park, Sandling, Post Office.-Mrs. .Albert George Mannering, sub-post­ Mrs. H. W. Tyrwhitt-Drake, R. H. Style esq. and Mrs. mistress. Letters received from Maidstone at 7·55 Arthur Dugdale are the principal landowners. The soil & 1I.45 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dispatched at 9·5 & II-45 is various, chalk, sand, ragstone and gravel. The chief a.m. & 7·35 p.m. week days & 11.40 a.m. sundays. crops are fruit and corn. The area is 5•]6I acres of The nearest money order office is at Hardy street, land and 25 of water; rateable value, £12,325 ; the Maidstone, & telegraph office at Maidstone head office, population in I9II was 1,420 in the civil parish and 3 miles distant 1,:o:g6 in the ecclesiastical parish. Post Office, Sandling. Henry Mannering, sub-postmaster. Parish Clerk, Albert George Mannering. Letters are delivered from Maidstone at 6.20 & 10.50 a.m.; dispatched at 11.15 a.m. & 8.45 p.m. The SANDLING is a hamlet, a mile and a half .south-west nearest money order office is at Sandling road, Maid­ and the same distance north from Maidstone, on the road stone, & telegraph office at Maidstone head office, 2 from Chatham to Maidstone, and on the east bank of the milPs distant navigable Medway. Sandling Place is tilie residence of Wall Letter Box at Harbourland house, cleared at 8.50 Randall Mercer esq. and The Park, Sandling, that of the & 11.30 a.m. & 7.40 p.m.; sundays, 11.45 a.m Rev. Thomas Godfrey Law Lushington M.A. Wall Letter Box, near Abbey farm, cleared at 7 & I I. 15 a.m. & 8 p.m. ; sunday!!, 7 a.m BOA.RLEY is a mile north-west. Here is a reservoir, the property of the Maidstone Water Works Co. with Parish Council, consisting of 9 members. a storage capacity of 2oo,ooo gallons. Chairman, Rev. C. E. W. Best-Dalison M.~\ Clerk, Charles Frederick Foster Weavering Street and Grove Green are 2 miles south. At Grove Green is the church of St. Michael and All Public Elementary Schools. Angels, an iron structure erected in 1903 ; the services Boxley, built in 1846, for 120 children; average attend­ are conducted by the clergy of the Parish church. Here ance, 75; William Moore, master; Miss Ellen Peters, is also a school. assistant mistress ; Miss Eleanor Prince, supple­ mentary teacher DUN STREET, 2! miles north-east, is ecclesiastically Grove Green Girls' & Infants' (mixed), built in 1852, in the parish of Bredhurst. Letters are received for 66 children ; average attendance, 45 ; Mrs. Ham- through Bredhurst, Chatham. mood, mistreSI BOXLEY. Chittenden Laura (Mrs.), farmer, Saveall William James, apartments, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Weavering street The Hermitage Best-Dalison Rev. Charles Edmund Clarke Thomas, farm bailiff to R. H. Shilling & Cripps, wheelwrights Style esq. Warren farm Shilling George, blacksmith Wailer M.A. & Mrs. Best-Dalison, Clifford E. James, farmer, Abbey & SiawsonLeslieGodfree,King'sArms P.H Park house Street farms Turner Jas. frmr. Upper Grange frm Blois-Turner 'Mrs. Medway cottage Coveney Daniel, farmer, Weavering st Collis Miss, Valehede ,..- Cripps Isaac, wheelwright, see Shil- SANDLING. Foster Henry Hayward, Court lodge ling & Cripps F te H b t Th Y Lushington Rev. Thos. Godfrey Law os r . M u er ,H thfi e ewsId Dann Horace,Chiltern Hundreds P .H. M.A. (vicar of Bearsted), The Park F rem1 m rs. ea e Sittin!!bourne road · h .,.,. A = Mercer Randall, Sandling Place H a I e R ev. J ames R as hi e1g 1~... • Dennis William, farmer (vicar), Vicarage Ed d El G (M' ) CM B d' Ponder Constant Wells M.A., M.D.• Hilton Rev. ~ecil John M.A. (curate), t;i~: :~rsea · ISS • • • lB- D.P.H. Camb., ( M.R.C.S. Eng., The Hermitage Featherstone Alfred ho~ sampler L.R.C.P.Lond. assistant county L ysons M aJOr· D · 0 · W · R a1gers· fie Id , FeatherstoneGeo.farmer• ewnham crt medical Qfficer of health for Kent),. ;MacLeod Sir Reginald K.C.B. ~inters .,Foster C. Fred, farm st~ward to Rev. Tat:::J ~?%:rd Turner, Brooklyn M_arsham ~ady Margt. Weavermg ho I 0. E. W. Best-Dalison, assistant Nickalls Miss, Boxley abbey, overseer & derk to Parish Council COMMERCIAL. Boper Chas. Edward,Harbour Land ho 1 Lower grange Sandling ' Baker Albert, shopkeeper

Ruck Morris Alfd. Weavering grange 1 Foster Henry Hayward & Hubert BradshawWatson P.accountnt.Mill hD Style Robert. Henry,_ B_oxley house" farmers, Court Lodge farm ' Broadbridge Henry, blacksmith Whatman Misses, S1ttmgbourne road Goodhew Benj.fruit grower, Grove go Dann Roland, farmer 1 COMMERcux.. Larkin William, beer retailer Eaton William, decorator Beddow William Henry,Pottery Arms Ledger Fredk.fruit grower,Grove grn Foster C. Fred, farmer,Lower grange P.H. Forstall Moon Ernest, farmer Fullagar William, farmer Bellingham Willia.m M. farmer Pantony Richard, farmer Goulden Harold Vincent. Malta inn Brooker George, farmer, Boarley frm Pearce Thomas, grocer Jarrett Jarvis, beer retailer Bunyard George & Co. Lim. (Maid- Pettitt Sarah (Mrs.), Bull P.H. Penen- Parkes Brothers, wheelwrights stone), nurserymen den heath Thompson Walt. Running Horse P.H is a village and parish, deriving its tributed to the poor. Lord Brabourne, who is lord of name from the bourne or rivulet rising in it, and is at the manor and Sir Wyndham Knatchbull hart. are the the foot Qf the chalk downs called "the backbone of principal landowners. The soil is chiefly chalk, loam Kent;• 3~ miles north-east from station on the and sand ; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops main line of the South Eastern and Chatham r!lilway to are wheat, hops, beans and peas. The area is 3,524 Folkestone and Dover, and 7 east from Ashford: the acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £3,94n parish is in the Southern division of the county, and the population in 19u was 570 in the civil parish and partly in the hundred uf Bircholt Barony, lathe of Scray, 6g2 in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Monks­ and partly in Wye hundred, lathe of Shepway, East Ash­ Horton civil parish). ford union, Ashford county court district and petty ses­ sional division, and in the rural deanery of N orth-Lympne BIRCHOLT (or Birchall) is a small parish in Biroholt and archdeaconry of Canterbury. This place, since 188o, Franchise and barony, 2 miles south-west from Bra­ bourne and 4l east-by-SQuth from .Ashford, and contains has given the title of baron to the Knatchbull~Hugessen family. The church <>f St. Mary is an ancient building three farms-. The church of St. Margaret has long since of stone, in the NQrman and Early English styles, and disappeared. The living- is a rectory, net yearly value has a tower containing 5 bells: there are numerous £35· in the gift of Lord Brabourne, and held since 1903 monuments to the Soott family, o80me brasses and by the Rev. Thomas Lindsay Stack M.A. who is also several stained windows, one of which contains very vicar of and resides at iBrabourne. A mission room early glass: the church affords 200 sittings. The re­ was opened here in 1875', and is used as a Sunday school. Area, 300 acres; rateable value, £240 ; pop~ gister dates from the year 1558. The living is a vicar­ • • age, consolidated with the rectory of Monks Horton, net bon m 19II was 17. yearly value £247, with 5 acres of glebe and residence, East Brabourne is a quarter of a mile aouth-eaet; W&St in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held Brabourne, 1i west; Bulltown Corner, It north-west r 1ince 1903 by the Rev. Thomas Lindsay Stack M.A. Brabourne Lees, 1i -south-west. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who is all!() rector of Bireholt. Here is a. Baptist chapel, built in 1818 and Parish Clerk, John Evend81l. enlarged in 1839· William Fordred in 155o left 2c; acres Post & M. 0. Office, Brabourne Lees. Mrs. Catherine of land in Romney Marsh, now (1911) producing £27 Ios. Apps, eub-post;mistress. Letters through Ashforcf yearly, of which £3 res. is distributed to the poor of arrive at 7.30 a.m. & x.1o p.m.; sundays, 8.30 a.m.; this parish, and the remainder to six other parishes, dispatched at 9.25 a.m. & 6. Io p.m. ; sundays. g.xs in money. Knott's chal"ity of Ss. a year is charged on a.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Smeeth, x{ a farm in the parish of , and ia dil- miles distant-