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DIRECTORY.] KENT. HOATH. 351 • liU·DENBOROUGH is a pleasant hamlet andecclesi- provided by E. Jewell esq. and contains rooms for reading astical parish, formed October 18th, 1844, from the civil and indoor games; it is self-supporting. Here also is an ex parishes of Leigh and Tonbridge: it is situated on the road tensive cricket ball and bat manufactory, established in 1825 from London to Tonbridge, with a station on the South by the late Robert Dark, and now carried on by Mr. Thomas Eastern line to Tonbridge, about 2 miles north-west from FranCis. The landowners are the Earl of Derby K.G. Sir Tonbridge town and 28 from London, in the South Western Julian Goldsmid bart. M.P. J. H. Johnson esq. and Charles division of the county, lathe of Aylesford, Tonbridge F. Kemp esq. D.L. and several smaller owners. The soil is hundred, union, county court district and petty sessional clay ; subsoil, various. The chief crops are hops, wheat, division, rural deanery of Tonbridge, archdeaconry of Maid- barley and turnips. The area is 3,380 acres; the population !&one and diocese of Canterbury. St. John's church, erected in 1881 was 1,239. in 1844, is a cruciform building of stone in the Gothic style, Parish Clerk, Thomas Thorne. consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower on the south- PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- ~ with spire and containing clock and one bell: there are Edwin Hendry, receiver. Letters arrive from Tonbridge; 18Veral stained memorial windows and 550 sittings. The delivered at 7.15 & 11• 15 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dispatched at register dates from the year 1844. The living is a vicarage,· I I. IS a. m. & 5 & 8 p.m. ; sundays, 10, 50 a. m gross yearly value £150, with resid~nce and six acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of Ton bridge, and held since WALL Box, Hildenboroughstation, cleared at 2.45 & 7 p.m.;. 188I by the Venble. Markby Janeiro Thornton Boys M. A. of sundays, no collection lfadham College, Oxford, formerly archdeacon of Bombay. National School, built for 201 children; average attendance, There is also a. small Baptist chapel. The poor have £15 165; Henry James Sparkes, master; Mrs. Harriett yearly in bread, the gift of George Children esq. of 'fon- Sparkes, mistress . bridge in 1718. The Working Men's Institute is a building Railway Station, Alfred Horwood, station master Wickins Henry White, Philpots Francis Thomas (late Dark),cricket ball PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wingate Robert, Oakhurst & bat manufacturers, Watts cross; & Boys Ven. Markby Janeiro Thornton at Lords' cricket ground, London Jf.A. rvicar 1, Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Hendry Edwin, grocer, & post office Brown Rev.Walter Henry B.A. [curate] Banks William, farmer Hitchcock Horace H. cricket ball makr Cecil Lord Arthur Gascoigne, Orchard- Barkaway Charles, cattle dealer Hodge Edward, plumber roams• Bar ton J ames, shoe maker Holmwood William, builder Cecil Lord Lionel B.A. Orchardmains Bassett George (Mrs.), farmer, Old Hu~gett James, farm bailiff to Sir CuAliffe Roger, Meopham bank House farm Julian Goldsmid, Bourne farm Francis Thomas, Watts cross Bassett Thomas, farmer Humphrey Mary (Mrs.), grocer & drpr Greenwood Edward, Hilden cottage Batchelor Thomas, farm bailiff to D. Jeffery James, butcher Jewell Edward, Hollanden park Evens esq. Selbys farm Kemsley Alfred, New Cock P.H Johnson John Henry, Mountains Betts Robert, thatcher, Watts cross Knight Henry, coal merchant Kemp Charles Fitch D.L. Fox bush Brown Hy. D.Gate hotel,Railway statn Knight William James, tailor Kingscote Thomas, Great Trench house Burfoot Richard (Mrs.), miller (wind), Lidster John, Old Cock P.H Lawson Misses, Noble Tree cross Watts cross Sales Jesse, blacksmith, Watts cross Lowrey Misses, Colebarbour park Castle Edward, baker Spratley Henry, grocer Nevins Reginald D. G. Pembroke lodge Cavie Albert Will, Old Half Moon P.H Stallard Geo.farm bailiff toE.Jewell esq Nicholson Sir Richard F.S.A. Oak hill Chantler William, blacksmith Thorn Charles, Flying Dutchman P.H Pinyon John, Nizells heath Collins Thomas, steward to Earl of Thorn Charles, tobacconist Stanley Col. C. Oaklands Derby K.G., P.c. Fairhill Thorn Mrs. farmer, Riding lane Stewart Charles, The Burst Crowhurst Chas. coach builder & smith Treadwick Ric-hard, organist Welch John, St. John's cottage Francis John, inspector of weights & Wightwick Wm. J. farmer, Trench frm Welch Miss, Oak lodge measures & of prevention of cruelty Working Men's Institute (Henry James Welfear William, I<'ir Tree farm to animals for Tonbridge Sparkes, sec) HINXHILL (anciently called "Hengestelle ") is a vil- since 1837 by the Rev. John Philpott M. A. of St. John's lage and parish, 70 miles from London and 3 east from Ash- College, Cambridge, who has also been rector of Brook, in ford, in the Southern divisioh of the county, lathe of Scray, the same patronage, since 1852, and chaplain of East Ash hundred of Chart and Longbridge, Ashford petty sessional ford union since 1840. In 1727 a subterranean fire broke division and county court district, union of East Ashford out in the valley between Godcheap, in this parish, and Wye, and in the rural deanery of North Lympne and archdeaconry which lasted six weeks and consumed three acres of ground, and diocese of Canterbury. The church of St. Mary is a burning it to red ashes. Capt. John Wyndham Billington III!all building of Kentish rag, in the Early English and later J.P. of Kennington, in this county, and Mrs. Billington are ltyles, consisting of chancel with north aisle, nave, north the principal landowners. The soil is sandy; subsoil, sandy aiele with an arcade of two archE>.s, south porch and a gravel. The chief crops are wheat, heans, hops and barley. western tower of Early English date with shingled spire con- The area is 717 acres; rateable value, £865; the population taining 2 bells: in the chancel is a Perpendicular piscina and in 1881 was 138. a single sedile: in the chancel aisle is an Elizabethan monu- Parish Clerk, George Shorter. ment to Robert Edolph esq. and Cicely his wife; and there WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6 p.m. on week days only. 18 a small brass to one Gantey, dated 1518 : there are five L h h Ashf d · Th stained windows: the church was restored in 1881 : there etters t roug or arrrve at 7·3° a. m. e nearest money order & telegraph office is at Willesborough are 200 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1586; marriages, 1577 ; burials, 1578. The living is a This place is a contributory district to Willesborough School rectory, tithe rent-charge [200, with 12 acres of glebe and Board, sending two members residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury The children of this village attend the board school at and Sir John William Honywood bart. alternately, and held Willeshorough Philpott Rev. John H.A. Rectory Rolfe George Carter, farmer & hop Mace David, farmer Eldridge William, farmer grower & land steward to Sir Wynd- Rolfe Waiter, farmer & hop grower Mallion William, farm bailiff t.o Mrs. ham Knatchbull bart. J.P Whitewood John, farmer Billington HOATH is a parish and village, in the Eastern division has about 200 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from of the county, lathe of St. Augustine, hundred of Bleangate, the year 1554; marriages and burials, '1559· The living is Home petty sessional division, Blean union, county court a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Reculver, tithe rent district of Canterbury, rural deanery of Westbere and arch- charge £323, joint net yearly value [230, in the gift of the deaconry and diocese of Canterbury, 2 miles north-east Archbishop of Canterbury, and held since 1874 by the Rev. from Grove Ferry station, 58 from London (by road), 4 1 Robert Healey Blakey M.A. and formerly fellow of University south from Herne Bay and 6 north-east from Canterbury. College, Durham. There is a Wesleyan chapel here. The The church of the Holy Cross, built in 1303, is a small principal landowners are Earl Sondes, the Archbishop of edifice of flint and rubble, in the Early English style, con- Canterbury, who is lord of the manor, and Mrs. Rammell. sisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a wes- The soil is stiff clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops tern tower with spire containing 3 bells: on the south side al,'e wheat, barley, oats and hops. The area is 897 acres; of the chancel is a plain niche with a piscina and shelf: in rateable value, £1,927; the population in 1881 was 335· the nave is a small brass, with effigies to Antony Maycot, ob. MAYPOLE STREET and OLD TREE are places in the parjsh; 1532, his wife Agnes, with two sons and five daughters; the SHELVIN is 1 mile north-east. brass figure of the wife is a palimpsest : there is another in Sexton, George Bulger. ihe chancel, with mutilated effigy, to Isabella Chakbon, c. Letters received through Canterbury. The nearest money 1430: the church was restored and enlarged in 1867, and • order & telegraph offices are at Chislet .