416 KINGSTON. . (KELLY'5 eluding Denne Hill Mansion and Farm, were transferred Kingston), in 1853 gave the sum of £439 rss. od. to • t.he rector and churchwardens of Kingston, the interest to W omenswould. on which to be annually divided equally between such Ileden is I mile n"OO"th-east. deserving persons living in the parish as they should select, but under the Local Government Act of r8Q4, Sexton, J ames Fagg. two persons elected by the Parish meeting have been Post Office. John Oxley, sub·-postmaster. Letters substituted as distributors in the place of the church­ arrive from at 5-55 &.m. & 1.45 p.m. ;- dis­ wardens. The Marquess Conyngham is lord of the patched at 9·45 a.m. & 8.15 p.m.; arrive 5·55 a.m. manor and principal landowner. The soil is light and on sundays & dispatched at r.3o p.m. The nearest chalky; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, money order & telegraph office is at Barham, 1 mile barley and oats. The area is r,~42 acres; rateable distant value, £1,177; the population in I9II was 229 in the Wall Letter Box, Reed farm, cleared at 7.10 a.m. week -civil and 268 in the ecclesiastical parish (which in­ days & sundays . dudes part of Womenswold). By Local Government Board Order 23,64r, dated The children of this parish attend the schools at Barham March 24, 188g, two detached parts of this parish, in- & COMMERCIAL. Mummery Amos, farmer, Whitelocks PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Collard Cecil, farmer, Ileden farm Oxley John, blacksmith, & post office Deny Alfred Ernest, We~Jtwood Derry John, farmer, Reed farm Page Waiter Thomas, shoe maker & Fowler William, Marley Hodges Thomas S. farmer, Kingston assistant overseer French Edward Hy. C.B., J.P. Deden Lodge farm Pettit Jn. Wood, fall'IIler,Li:ttle Marley Gambrill Valentine, Rectory cobtage Humphries Henrietta Mary (Mrs.), Philpott John, Dog P.H Style Rev. Frederic Newton M.A. miller (wind) Rose William Hy. Black Robin P.H (rector), Rectory Johnson Edwin, frmr. Westwood farm StringerAlfd.Noah, frmr.Kingston crt XNOCKHOLT is a parish and straggling but pleasant Company, the water being pumped from wells at Orp­ village, 3 miles south from Knockholt station on the ington, about sl miles distant. The principal land­ Tonbridge section of the South Eastern and Chatham owners are Earl Stanhope, the Right Hon. Sir William railway, and 6 miles north-west from Sevenoaks, in the Hart Dyke hart. of Lullingstone Castle, who is lord of Western division of the county, hundred of Ruxley, lathe the manor, Mrs. Henry Turner, Thomas Frederick of Sutton-at-Hone, Bromley petty sessional division, Burnaby-Atkins esq. of Tonbridge, Sampson Copestake union and county court district, and in the rural deanery esq. of Shermanbury Place, Sussex, and Alfred Waldron of Sevenoaks, archdeaconry of Tonbridge and diocese of Smithers esq. J.P. The soil is strong loam; subsoil, Rochester. The church of St. Katherine is of flint and chalk. The chief crops are pasture and fruit. The area brick, and has a tower containing a clock and 2 bells; is 1,7or acrei; rateable value, £5·576; the population there are several memorial windows; the interi()r was in rgrr was 943· t'Snovated in 1863 at a cost of about £5oo, and in 188 I Sexton, George Bond. • north aisle was built and the church restored at a Clerk to the Parish Council, Garnet Waterman. CQst of £r,or2: there are 2so sittings, ISO being free. The register dates from the year rs48. The living was Post, T., M. 0. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.- declared a rectory Oct. 30, 1866, net yearly value £230, Miss Mary Elizabeth Forge, sub-postmistress. Letters with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of the arrive from Sevenoaks at 6.15 & 11.30 a.m. & 6.40 Archbishop of Canterbury, and held since 1883 by the p.m. to callers only; dispatched at 9.30 a.m. & 3 & Rev. Frederick Hava.rd Jones M.A. of Emmanuel Col- 6.45 p.m.; sundays. 10.45 a.m lege, Cambridge. The Wesleyan chapel here was Wall Letter .Boxes. The Mount, cleared at 8.5 a.m. & tJuilt in 1887, and there are United Methodist and Cal- 2.45 & 6.35 p.m.; su,ndays, ID-3S a.m.; 'Royal Oak,' vinistic chapels. Miss Thrale, of Ash Grove, Knock- cleared week days at 8 a.m. & 2.45 & 6.30 p.m.; sun- bolt, bequeathed in November, r8s8, to the incumbent days, 10.30 a.m. & Park corner, cleared at 9.30 a.m. for the time being, an annuity of £25, and another an- & 3.10 & 7 p.m.; sundays, 10.50 a.m nuity of £25 for a cur9.te whenever one is required, but Kent Constabulary.-William Geo. Paramour, sergeant the last-named sum is now equally distributed among five poor widows ; this lady also bequeathed £so a year Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1902, for to be spent each Christmas Eve in bread, meat and 192 children; average attendance, 148 ; Herber1i warm clothing at the diseretion of the trustees, and a Arthur Root, master further annuity of £so towards educating poor children. Railway Station Joseph Fields, station maater On a hill in this neighbourhood is a clump of remark- Omnibus from the 'Royal Oak' to Knockholt statioll able old trees, known as the Knockholt Beeches, which tltand 770 feet above the level of the sea, and are twice daily (week days only) visible for many miles. In the parish is a reservoir, Carrier to London-C. Middleton, to Spur yard, constructed in 1889-90 by the K~nt Water Works Borough S E, on thurs. returning on fri Vavasseur Misses, Knockholf. house Lewis Robert, fruit grower, Knock- PRIVATB RESIDENTS. Walker Lient.-Col. Robert S. Frowd bolt wood Airey John, Melrose C.M.G. Scott's lodge Martin Thomas, fruit grower Aldridge Henry, Little Burlings Monsell Nellie (Mrs.), Three Horse Brown Misses, Meadow bank COMMEBCIAL. Shoes P.H Collins Arthnr, Burlings lane Ball Benjamin, Crown P.H Musson James, dairyman, Ivy farm Collins Daniel, Harrow cottage Blundell Douglas R. corn merchant Newton James, shopkeeper EUiott John, Parkside Bond H. k Sons, builders Nightingale Florence (Miss), aparts Fickus James, Balnalan Bond Aaron, iruit grower Nightingale William, gamekeeper to Poster Mrs. Heath glen Bowen Henry Wm. farmer,Lordswood Earl Stanhope Fox Charles Edmund, Highmanswick Chilton George, shopkeeper Parker John, estate carpenter to Grist Charles J. Elg-in house Churchill John, farmer, Shelley's Earl Stanhope Hammond Waiter John, The Grange Clifford Amos, draper Ripley Alhert. blacksmith Horne Charles, Highfield Constable Samuel Neal, farmer, Ston­ Simmons Elias, blacksmith Hunter Charles Herbert, The Firs ings farm Smith Stephen L.S.A., M.R.C.S. sur­ .Jones Rev. Frederick Havard M.A. Oooke Mary Caroline (Miss), teacher geon, Glenthorne (rector), Rectory of music Swan William, farm bailiff to A. W. S ODe& Thomas Oswald, Beechwood Dolley Percy, draper Smithers esq. Blueberry farm Lafone Henry. Court lodge Ede Brothers, bakers Sweatman William, boot maker Lloyd Capt. Frank Lewis, Uphill Forge Henry, boot & shoe maker Tapsell Edward, builder O'Donnell Harold, Great Burlings Forge Mary Elizabeth (Miss), sta- Taylor Alfred, saddler & ha.raess Reynolds Mrs. Dunheved tioner, Post office maker (branch) Boot Herbert Arthur Hammond EmilyElizh.(Mrs.),beer ret Village Hall (H. A. Root, sec) Singleton Thomas, Tullyherin Hammond Harry, shopkeeper W alkling George, farmer Smith Stephen, Glenthorne Ingarfill Alfred, builder Warman Geo. William, Ha:rrow P.Jl SmitheTc Alfd. WaldTon J.P. Homefld Ingarfill John, fruit grower Waterman Alfred, nurseryman Smithers Langley, Ash grove Jones Owen, gardener to A. W. Wells A. & Sons, drapers Smithers Waldron, Mariner's lodge Smithers esq Wells Mary Ann (Mrs.) & Son, fly Sorensen Carl Geoffrey, Fairmead Leigh Thomas, carter proprietors Swanston Frank, Letts green Lewington Charlotte (Mrs.), beer re- Wells Waiter, laundry Thompson .Archibald Hy.Jas.Castle ho tailer, Park corner Wisdom James, butcher Wood Arthur, baker •