DIRECTORY.] . EYTBORNE. 267 verted into an orchard, but the remains of the strong keep &; 5.50 p.m. (London) j dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & are still visible; the castle, leased to E. D. Till esq. 2.30 p.m. to London direct & 8·50 a.m. &; 6,3° p.m. to is the property of the Right Hon. Sir William Hart Dartford &; to London, 9.45 p.m.; sunday, arrive 8.19 Dyke bart. P.C., M.P. of Lullingstone Oastle, who is a.m.; dispatched 10 oIl.m the principal landowner. The soil is loom and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oa,ts, fruit and hops. Schools. 'The area is 3,532 acres of land and 8 of water j rateable A School Board of 5 members WSlI formed 18 Aug. 18gI; value, £9,536; the population in 1901 was, civil, 2,004, J. C. Hayward, Sessions house, DartfO'rd, clerk to the ecclesiastical, 915. board Crocken Hill, partly in this parish, will be found National (mixed), built in the year 1834, for 112 chil­ under a separate heading. dren, & since enlarged to hold 180; average attendance, Parish Clerk, Harry Davidge. I04; Wm. Pratchett, master; Mrs. Pratchett, mistress Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Board School, erected in 1894> for 200 children; average Post, S. B. & Annuity &; 'In~urance Office. (Sub-Office. att-endance, go; Samuel Woolley, master; Miss Eliza Letters ,should have b.O. Kent added). Ryall Gee, Edmonds, mistress sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 8.10 a.m. & 12.40 Railway Station, Frederick Bowles, station master

PIUVATE RESIDENTS. Bradshaw Arehibald Richard Joseph, to' the Darenth Valley Main Edwin Stanley p. Bower grocer, tailor, draper & boot & shoe Sewerage Engleheart Mrs. Emilie, Fern bank dealer, hardware &; patent medicine Holdich In. Seamark, shpkpr.& baker Gibson Sidney William, Towercroft vendor &c J ones Mark, grocer &; draper Green MaJlshall Yeoman, The Lodge Brice Benjamin, cowkeeper Millbourn Hillier Henry, beer retailer Hutchinson Rev. Abraham Steers Brice Harry J. Five Bells P.H Miller William, frmr.Up. Anstin lodge M.A. (vicar) Brooks Albert, fruit grower Munn Joseph Henry, grocer, baker, Leaf William B Cannell Henry &; Sons, nurserymen &; draper &; fruit grower &; coal mer· Sargent Mrs. Bower house seedsmen chant; depi"lt, Railway station Selby Mrs. Mill house Cannell R<>bert William. nurseryman Norton Brothers, cycle agents Smith Rev. John (Baptist), Tbe Manse &; florist Norton David, miller (water) & corn Till Elliott Downs, The Priory Cunningham Thomas, Plough P.H merchant Wood William Harvey, Darentb cot Dennis John, gardener Pastorelli Ralph, 'Dhe Harrow P.H Dunmall Frederick, apartments Pocock William, butcher COMMERCIAL. Frost Jonn, baker Sage Arthur E. butcher .Alexander Jame~, Ifarmer Gee Ryall, grocer, draper, & sub-post- Spicer & Foster Limited, Eynsford Baker Alfd.Dnl. boot ma. &coffee tvrn master paper mills Hooker WaIter, apartments Gibson Sidney William, engineer, iron Wellard Joseph, farm bailiff to' the Eooker William, carpenter I & brass founder &; agricultural im- !Right Hon. Sir William Hart Dyke Bowers Henry, farmer &; fruit grower plement maker &; agent, &; surveyor bart. M.P Bowers Josiah, coal mercbant White Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress

EYTHORNE (divided into Upper and Lower Ey­ tributed in money and bread to the poor by the rect,or thorne) is a, parish, 7 miles north-west from , 6~ and parish council. Elvington Court is the property and south-w~st from Sandwich and 2 north-east from Shep­ residence of Capt. Graham Eden Shedden. The principal herdswell station on the and Dover sect.ion of landowners are the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, the South Eastern and Chatham railway, in the Eastern the trwotees of the late Admi.ral Sir Edward Bridges Rice division of the county, hundred and union, lathe K.C.B. of Dane Court (d. 1902), Major George R. Edgell ~f St. Augustine, Wing-ham petty sessional division, Sand­ of Midford, Somerset, and tbe Earl of Guilford. The wich county court district, and in the rural deanery of soil is loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, Sandwich and arcbdeaconry of Canterbury. The church barley and oats; the area is 1,322 acres; rateable value, ()f SS. Peter and Paul is of rough flints, in the Early £2,146; the population in 1901 was 424. English and later ,styles, and has a tower of flint and Parish Clerk, Henry T. Amos. brick at the north-east an,g-le, containing 5 bells, one Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel being' added, and the rest rehung in 18g6: there is a Past, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Leonard memorial window to the late Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, Richard Hampshire, sub-postmaster. Letters throuO'h d. I5 Dec. 1887, and some monuments: in I875 and 1890 Dover bV mail ca,rt, arrive at 6,3'5 a.m. & Z.10 p.m~; the church was restored at a cos,t of upwards of £2,000 dispatched at 11.30 a.m. & 8 p.m .and £1,000 J'espectively, and affords about 220 sittings. Wall Letter Box, Lower Eythorne, cleared at II.35 a.m. The register dates from the year 1597. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £240, with 4 acres of glebe and &; 7.40 p.m.; sundays, 8.10 p.m !residence, in the gift of the Earl of Guilford and Pelham Carriers to Dover & .-AppIeton, from !'on­ R. Papillon esq. of Crowburst, SUSoSex, alternately, and ington, tues. & frL at II a.m. returning same eveninA' ~eld since 1894 by the Rev. Basil Burrows M.A. of Hert­ at 6.30 p.m. &; WaIter ffinkley, to' Dover, every sat. &; ford College, Oxford. There is a BaptiS't chapel, originally tues. at 7.30 a.m. returning same afternoon at 1.30 built in 1550, and has 600 sitting-so The charities amount National School (mixed), built in 1891 &; enlarged in 1898, to {;6 12S. '6d. yearly, derived from funds left under the for 12C; children; average attendance, 75; WaIter Mar­ wills of P. Fector esq. and W. Lambert, and are dis- shall Harris, master; Mrs. Emrna Harris, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Hopper Charles, blacksmith Bailey Yrs Hughes John, colporteur Birch Samuel, Langdown house Amos Henry Thomas, corn dealer, Hussey Chas. tailor & dairymm Eromley Mrs. Church Hill house baker & confectioner Hughes Samuel John, baker Burrows Rev. Basil M.A. (rector), Arnold Richard James, blacksmith Lloyd John, dairyman, Elvington The Rectory Baker Mary & Hannah (Misses), dress Marsh John, farmer &; woodman ':Burton Miss Mary, The Rectory makers Moody Ernest Arthur, boot maker ':Burnett Rev. William (Baptist) Camburn AlIen, insurance agent Mount Percy, saddler Church George, The Retreat Chase Charles, White Horse F.H Newman John & Son, tin workers Duncau William, West End house Collard Percy, butcher Odd Fellows' Club (Earl of Guilford Fry Edward Holyman, Victoria villa Coney Sarah (Miss), district nurse lod~e, Manchester Unity), beld at Greet Henry, Prospect house Eyle!! Ambrose, beer retailer Crown botel (George Church, sec) Harvey Mrs. The Priory Grav James, farmer Palmer Thomas, carpenter Biggl!l Mrs Duncan William L.R.C.P. & S. &; Parker Richard, Ma.rk &; William, Hogben Miss L.M.Edin. physician & surgeon, wood dealers J8cob William, Langdown medical officer & public vaccinator Rigden William, ~ocer & draper Keeler George Frederick, St. Albans for the Eythorne district of the Sladden Annie (Miss), dress maker Makey Miss Eastry union, & the 2nd Hai.gham Stokeg Charles, Crown hotel & job Marsh Thomas, Yew Tree bouse district of the Dover union, West master &; fly proprietor Newman Jobn, Flax court End house Wyborn Arthur & Morton, farmers, Rancipe1ld Miss, Fairview Hampshire Leonard Richard, grocer Green &; Monckton Court farms -Sll.l'~eant Geo. Fredk. The Shrubbery & draper, &; deputy registrar of Wyborn Morton FredArick, registral' Shedden Capt. Oraham Eden, Elving. births & deaths, Eythorne sub-dil'- of births, deaths & marriages for ton court trict & of marriages for Eastry Eythorne sub-district, Eastry union ToIler Rev. Hill M.A. Eythorne house district, Eastry union, Post office & a~sistant overseer, Woodbine ho . West George, Upper street ' Hinkley WaIter, carrier ·