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p Jennings James William, Railway inn, Nye Alfred George, farmer Turner Wm. & Son, timber mers.Station Eridge station Pain John Kirby, farmer & corn mer Turner William, blacksmith Luck Frances (Mrs.), farmer, Sandhill Piddlesden Jacob, grocer, Post office Weston Luke, Nevill Cross & Gun P.K Macbean George Evan, land steward to Pratt Thomas, farmer, Hamsell farm Wickens Nelson, corn & coal factor the Marquess of Abergavenny x G. Summers William, farmer, Birchden Wickens William, grocer The Cottage Swift George, farmer Williamson Andrew, fa.rm bailiff to the Midmore Levi, farmer & shopkeeper, Taylor George, farmer, Copyhold farm Marquess of Abergavenny x.G Park corner Thomas George, farmer, Spratsbrook ETOHINGHAM(orEchinham)isaparishwithstation formation. The chief crops are hops. The area is 3,750 on the and Tonbridge branch of.the South Eastern acres ; rateable value, £6,324 ; in 188.1 the population was railway, 48 miles from Lonrlon and 14 miles north-west froni CJOi· Hastings, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred ()f' POST OFFICE {Sub-Office. Letters should have s.o. Sussex Henhurst, Burwasb petty sessional division, Ticehurstunion~ added).- William Lawrence Cox, receiver. Letters Hastings rape and county court district, rural deanery ()f arrive every morning at2.I2 & I0.40 a. m. ; dispatched at Dallington, archdeaconry of and diocese of ChiChester. 11.45 a. m. & 9·45 p.m.; & sundays arrive 7 a. m. & dis- The river Rother flows north of the parish, and a tributary patched 9·45 p.m. The nearest money order office is at called the Dudwell runs past the rectory and joins the main Hurst Green & telegraph oftice at the Railway station stream at the station. The church of SS. Mary and Nicholas Burst Green is a hamlet 1 mile north-east from Etch- is an ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpen- ingham station, partly in parish and partly in dicular styles, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of parish. Petty sessions for the division four bays, aisles, south porch and a large central tower, oc- fare held at the George hotel on the last Wednesday in each · cnpying the whole width of the nave and containing one bell: month; for the list of magistrates and places see Burwash. the chancel still retains its ancient stalls and screen, with their The church of the Holy Trinity is an edifice of red ltrick in delicate 14th century enrichments : there are memorial the Early English style, and consists of chancel and nave, brasses to the members of the Echingham family and three sonth porch an

EWHURST is a village and parish, bounded on the north John Boudier K.A. late fellow of that college. .At Staple­ by the river Rother and on the east by the county of Kent, cross is a Wesleyan chapel. The principal landowne1s are 6 miles east from Robertsbrid~ station on the Hastings and the Duke of Cleveland I.G. and the trustees of Henry Burra Tonbridge branch of the South Eastern railway, 6 miles esq. J.P. 'The parish is in two manors, and north of Battle, I 1 north from Hastings and 66 from London, Ewhurst; Henry Wells Allfrey esq. of Stratford-on-Avon, is in the Eastern division of the county, Battle petty sessional lord of the former and Thomas Smith Pix esq. ~.P. of Wood­ division and union, hundred of Staple, rape and county side, , lord of the latter. The soil is loamy ; sub­ court district of Hastings, rnral deanery of Hastings (second soil, sandy gravel. The chief crops are wheat and hops. division), archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. The area is 5,7I9 acres ; rateable value, £4,938 ; the popu- The church of St. James is a building of stone in the Early lation in x881 was I,Q9S. • • English and Decorated styles, and consists of chancel, nave Parish Clerk, J oseph Thomas N ewington. of three bays, aisles, west porch and a western tower with low spire containing 5 bells : the font, a square basin, on a POST OFFICE, Ewhurst Green.--William Cook, receiver. circular column, is of Sussex marble ; and, there are several Letters arrive from Hawkhurst at 7.3oa.m. & 4.20p.m.; stained windows: the church wBB thoroughly restored in dispatched at 6.30 p.m. a& sundaya 10.30 a.m. P08tal orders are issned here, but not paid 1874, and has 2,59 sittings. The earliest date ot rqristet is 1570. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge PosT, M. 0. & T. 0. & S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance Office, £688, gross early value £.738, with residence and o acres .-Mrs. Mary Ann Gilbert, l'e(!eiver. Letters arrive from Hawkhurst at 8 a. m. & 5.30 p.of.; dispatched College, Cambri e, .-nd held, fnce ~863 by the Rev. George ~ at 6.30 p.m. ; sund ays 10.30 a.m ' K. S. & S. 138