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King William, grocer, & post office Stone Arthur, bailiff to Ohas. Unsted Webb Richard, shepherd to B. Hobbs Ovenden Stephen Cook, farmer esq. Rhee Wall fa.rm esq. Knatchbull land Sims Saml. grazier, Book Wall farm Tickner Peter, farmer, Home farm . IWADE is a village and parish on the road from of Bapchild Court (d. 1897), Henry L. Webb esq. of to Sheppy, 3 miles north from Sitting· Tunstall House, Sittingbourne, and the Rev. F. A. W. bourne station on the South Eastern and Chatham rat!- Hamilton-Gell M.A. rector of Clyst St. Mary, Devon. way, in the North Eastern division of the county, Teyn- The soil is clav and marshy; subsoil, clay. The chief ham hundred, lathe of Scray, Sittingbourne petty ses- crops are fruit: wheat, barley and beans. The area is sional division, Milton union, county court district of Sit- 3,179 acres of land, 13 of inland and 102 of tidal water tingbourne, and in the rural deanery of Sittingbourne, and 349 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,983; the popu­ archdeaconry of and diocese of . lation in 19II was 233. The village st·ands high, but a great part of the parish is embanked marsh, lying between Stangate FUNTON, I mile west, has a quay on Stangate Creek1 Creek and the Strait of the Swale, both of which To the east was the King's free fe.rry into t,he Isle of are navigable. 'Dhe Church of All Saints is of flint Sheppy, but which is now reached by the ;railway bridge and brick, chiefly PM]Jendicular, but with some over the Swale,. on payment of rd. for foot passengers. Decorated features, and has a western tower, containing 2 bells ; there is a brass to Symon Snellyng and his wife, UPPER COLESHALL lies to the north-west; Lower of the I 5th century; the chancel was restored in I875 and Coleshall, 1 mile south~ Cunlells, r mile south-west; the church in 1893: there are 120 sittings. The register Chitney is in the marshes 2 miles to the north, and of baptisms dates from the year I590; marriages, I56I; mcludes Hole and Dodd's oyster grounds burials, 1569. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the Parish Clerk, .Albert Austin. rectory of Elmley, joint net yearly value £330, with Post Office.-Miss Martha Mantle, sub-postmistress. 4r! acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Letters arrive from Sit.tingbourne at 7· 15 a.m. & S·S .Archdeacon of Canterbury, and held since I9I2 by the p.m. ; dispatched at 7.20 a.m. & 5·5 p.m.; sunday, Rev. Wallace Woodruff Th . .A..K.C.L. The vicarage 7.20 a.m. Milton Regis, Sittingbourne, is the nearest house wa'3 erected in I886 from designs by Mr. Joseph money order office & Sittingbourne is the nearest Clark F.S . .A. diocesan architect. The charities amount telegraph office, 2! miles distant to £5 yearly, arising from land. P. T. H. Wykeham Public Elemenfary School (boys & girls), built in 1913, esq. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners fm· 120 children; average attendance, 8o; Miss Esther are the trustees of the late Capt. G. H. Moore R.N. Ohapman, mistress. The school is controlled by the of Sissinghurst, Lord Harris G.C.S.I,, G.C.I.E. the Milton Regis Rural District School .Attendance trnstees of the late William Whitehead Gascoyne esq. Committee Mantle Martha (Miss), shopkeeper, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Post office Chapman Frank Ansley Thomas, farm bailiff to Mr. Samson Thomas, grazier Woodruff Rev. Wallace Th.A.K.C. Leslie Doubleday Triplow Harry, farmer, Moat, farm (vicar, & rector of Elmley),Vicarage Colchin Herbert, Woolpack P.H W alters Albert Edward, Lord Nelson Hinge John, farmer, Culnells farm P.H. King's Ferry KEM:SING is a village and parish, partly in the baths. Beechy Lees, the residence of Ja.mes Murray valley and partly in the chalk hills eastward from Ot­ Tulloch esq. J.P. is the property of Cuthbert .Arthur ford, with a station I~ miles south-east from the village Morris .Arthur Field esq. of .Ashurst Park, Tunbridg& on the Maidstone line of the South Eastern and Chat­ Wells. Wybou.rnes, originally a 17th century house, ham railway, 2~ miles north-east from and which was burnt down in rgo4, was rebuilt in Igo6, 23! from London, in the Western dtivision of the county, and is now owned and occupied by .A.rthur P. Davisou hundred of Oodshea.th, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, petty esq. Lqrd Sackville is lord of the manor. The prin­ sessional division, union and county court district of cipal landowners are •C. A. M. Field esq. Sir Mark E.

Sevenoaks and in the rural deanerv• of Shoreham, arch- Collet bart. of St. Clere, Ightham, and Lieut.-CoL deaconry of and diocese of Rochester. The J. M. Rogt>rs D.S.O. of Riverhill House, Sevenoaks. The village stands at a short distance from the Pilgrim's soil is chalk, upper greemand and clay; subsoil, at the Way at the foot of the hills, and near the centre of it base of hill, gault clay. The chief crops are cereals and is a well called St. Edith's Well. The church of St. roots ; hops are grown here. The parish is about :a Mary is of stone in the Early English style, and has a miles square, and contains 1,909 acres; rateable 'Value, towe-r, with spire, containing 3 bells: the chancel was £3,804; population in I9II, 7I5 restored about r26o, and the nave probably at an earlier date: the windows contain some ancient stained glass, HEAVERH.A.M, 1 mile east, and Crowdleham, three- dating back to 1220, and there is an early 14th century quarters of a mile east, are hamlets. screen, restored, with a new loft, in memory of the late Crowdleham House, now the residence of Charles Barclay Field esq. and a brass with half effigy, besides George Bullock Marsham esq. M . .A.. was formerly in the some mural monuments: the nave was restored in 1870, possession of the Bunce family, whose estates were for• at a total cost of £345, and the chancel in I873, at a feited in 1651 for treason against the Parliament; the further cost of £ 143 r8s. In r89o the church was estates were returned on the restoration of Charle1 IL resJ;ored and enlarged at a total cost of £3,ooo: in 1902 and the owner, James Bunce, was knighted. the chancel was decorated and two stained windows erected, at a cost of £I,9oo, by the Rev. T. C. Skarratt Verger, George Williams. M A. vicar r889-1909, and his family, and in I906 a Clerk to the Parish Council, .Alfred G. Jordan, The memorial window was erected to the late Sir Mark School house Wilks Collet bart. d. 25 April, I905: there are 280 sittings. The register dates from the year I56I. The Post, T. & M. 0. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office. living is a vicarage, net yearly value £I5o, with A.ndrew Holden, sub-postmaster. Letters through residence, in the gift of five trustees, and held since Sevenoaks are delivered at 6.45 & 10·45 a.m. & 5·20 1909 by the Rev. Edward Hamilton Stewart M.A.. of p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m.; dispatched at I2·3P & 7.10 Trinity. College, Cambridge. The impropriate tithes p.m. ; sundays, II.40 a.m I. 12. & have been commuted for a rent-charge of £ 9 There Wall Letter Box at Heaverham cleared at ro 6.45 is an iron chapel of ease at Noah's Ark, erected in r887, p.m. ; sundays. 10 ·~ 0 a.m. only a Wesleyan chapel, erected in r885, and a United Wall LPtter Box at Noah's Ark cleared at 6.40 a.m. &; Evangelical Mission room. St. Edii:lh's Hall was built 12·45 & 7·3° p.m. ; sundays, 11·5° a.m m 1'912 at the sole cost of Sir Mark E. Collet, and Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in the year presented by him to the parish; ihe bnilding comprises 1885, for 134 children; average attendance, 1'26; Alfd, a hall to sea~ 250 persons, a library and working men's George Jordan, master; Mrs. Mary Jane Jordan, mist club, kitchens for laundry classes and hot and cold Railway Station, William Henry Pettman, station master PRIVATB RESIDENTS. Marsham Charles Geo. Bullock M.A. COMMERCIAl•• Cole Herbert, The Dial 0Towdleham house Early closing day, W~dnesday I p.m. Covell John, St. Edith'~ Simmonds A.Ibert, Pilgrims Avery & Son, butchers Davison .A.rthur Pearson, Wybournes Stewart Rev. Edward Hamilton M . .A. Booker Hy. jun. frmr. Co.tman's .Ash Edlmann Miss (vicar), Vicarage Chandler George Js.mes, cycle agent, Goldney Thomas, Dippers Tulloch James Murray J.P. Beechy Noah's Ark .Griffin George Ernest, Yewlands Lees (letters through Otford) Davidsnn George Maclean, fanner. Hickmott Arthur, Pilgrim cottage Ward Maj. W. Telford. Box house Heaverham Kerr Sidney H. Dippers Waring Miss, Crowdleham cottage Dyke John~ farmer