• styles, consisting of chancel with north chapel, nave, north Townsend Kirkwood esq. half a mile east, is a. mansion of aisle and a tower with a. small wooden spire on the south the date of Henry VII. standing in its own grounds, with a. side, containing 3 bells: the a.isle is very narrow and has remarkably fine entrance hall. Stone AC1'e, I: mile south one large arch opening to the nave and another to the east, is a very ancient farmhouse, held, it is said, for four chancel, on octagonal pillars. There are some curious centuries by the family of Elys or Ellis, but now belonging monuments to the Floods aud Hendleys (or Henleys) and a to Captain Baldwin, of Stede Hill. The Earl of Romney, tablet in the east wall to Dr. George Horne, Bishop of Nor- who is lord of the manor, Townsend Kirkwood esq. and wich 1:790-2, whose father was rector of this parish: the Captain Baldwin are the principal landowners. The soil is church was restored in 1865. The register dates from the mixed, sandy and clayey, upon rock, which is well adapted year I538. The living is a rectory, yearly value from tithe for the growth of hops, which are largely grown here, also rent charge £549, with residence and 38 acres of glebe, in much fruit. The area is 955 acres; rateable value, £3,3II ; the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford and held since 1869 by and the population in 1881 was 375. the Rev. Frederick Maule Millard M.A. late fellow of that OTHAM STREET is half a mile east of the church. college. Henley's charity, derived from money left in I590 Sexton, William Hadlow. by Thomas Henley, of Cranbrook, produces about £18 yearly Letters arrive by foot post from Maidstone at 8.20 a.m. & from the rent of a house and allotment gardens. The river 7 p.m. WALL LETTER Box, Otham street, cleared week Len forms the northel-n bouudary of the parish and works a days, 6.15 p.m.; sundays, II a.m. The nearest money paper mill belonging to Messrs. Hollingworth,"as well as order office is at Maidstone their extensive mills (known as the" Turkey mills") between Pm'ochial School, endowed with about £6 per annum; Miss this parish and Maidstone. Gore Court, the property of Rosa Fowtrell, IDistress Forster William Steward, Gore court Austen Amelia (Miss), farmer & hop Goodwin Solomon Wm. White Horse Millard Rev. Frederick Maule M.A. grower, Stone acre Hadlow WilIiam, blacksmith [rector], The Rectory AustenWilliam, farmer, Bugle Horn frm Hollands William, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Ralden Henry, shoe maker Tomkiu Musgrove, farm bailiff to Wm. AliaI'd Henry, wheelwright Betts Alfred, farmer, Senacre farm Steward Forster esq. Green hill , OTTERDEN is a village and parish, in the Mid and East held by the Rev. William Archibald Paxton M.A. of Trinity division of the county, Eyhorne hundred, Hollingbourn College, Oxford. There is a benefaction, of which the union, Aylesford lathe, Faversham county court district, Leathersellers' Company are trustees, left by James Bunce, rural deanery of Ospringe and archdeaconry and diocese of Alderman of London, which is expended: I. In a certain Canterbury, 7 miles south-west from Faversham. The SUID apportioned to the minister for catechising the young; church of St. Lawrence, which stands on the site of an 2. In repairs. every 10 years to the church; 3. In yearly older edifice pulled down in I753, is a plain rectangular distribution to the poor, being derived from rents the building of brick quoined with stone, with an undivided amount is uncertain. Otterden Place, an ancient embattled interior but contains some fine IDonuments and brasses: in mansion of brick in the Tudor style, stands in the middle of 3 recess on the north side, on an altar tomb, are effigies of park-like grounds of Ioo acres, beautifully wooded; it was William Lewin and his wife, with their ten children kneeling here that Stephen Gray put up his first electric line, in . in front, date I598: by side of this is another altar tomb to company with the Rev. Granville Wheler, on June I4th, Justinian Lewin and his family, it bears his effigy, in 1725; it is now the seat of Charles Wheler Wheler esq. J.P. armour and fi~ures of his lady on her knees at the base- who is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil ment with an infant daughter beside her, date I620: on the is light loam; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops are west side of the church is a marble monument to John wheat, barley, oats and peas. The area is I,487A. IR. 7P. ; Bunce, Alderman of London, with his figure and those of rateable value, £I,419; and the population in 188I was 165. two females kneeling before a fauldstool, date I6II : there Pa1'i.~h Clerk, Jacob Croucher. are also two important IDemorials to the family of "'heeler, besides a number of mural monuments. The register dates Letters through Faversham. Lenham & Charing are the frOID the year I660. The living is a rectl'lry, tithe £242 IOS. nearest money order offices with I9I acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of and Parochial Schoal, Miss Griggs, mistress Paxton Rev. WilliaID Archibald M.A. Boorman Glazier, farmer, Stubblefield I Harrison George, farmer, Hurst Rectory i Clinch William, farmer, I Slade Harrison Thomas, farmer, Rigg's hill Wheler Chas. Wheler J.P. Otterden place Croucher Jacob, grazier Jackson John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Elvy John, farmer, Snode Lurcock Thos. John, farmer, llunce crt ., Barnard John, grazier, Hall's place I Harrison Chas. farmer,CuckooWood (rm Tampsett Joseph, farmer, Morton hall OXNEY is a parish, in the Eastern division of the.county, fields and meadows. Thearea is 313 acres, with only three hundred of Cornilo, lathe of St. Augustine, Dover union or four houses; rateable value, £464 I IS. 8d. ; and the popu and county court district, 5 miles north frOID Dover. There lation in 1881, 23. is no church. Oxney Court is the seat of William John I . Banks esq. Of.P. who is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Letter~ reoeIved from Dover, which is the nearest IDoney The soil is chalky and the land consists of unenclosed co1"n- , order office. Bankl'l 'William Johu J.P. Oxney court PADDLESWORTH is a parish 4 miles north-west restored in 1869. The register of marriages dates from the from Folkestone, in the Eastern division of the county, year 1715; burials, 1721; baptisms, I762. The living is a. hundred of Loningborough, Elham union, lathe of Shepway, chapelry, annexed to the rectory and vicarage of Lyminge, Folkestone county court district, rural deanery of Elham joint gross y.early value £930, in the gift of and held since and archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, with a thin I854 by the Rev. Robert Charles Jenkins M.A. of Trinity and scattered population. The sIDall church of St. Oswald, College, Cambridge, honorary Canon of Canterbury, who situated in a dreary and elevated site, 650 feet above the sea resides at Lyminge rectory. This parish is said to contaia level, is a building of flints and black ironstone, in the Early some of the highest ground in the county. The farms are Norman style and consists of chancel and nave, with a turret chiefly the property of the occupiers. The soil is light loam, on the western gable containing I bell: the principal Norman sand and clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are grass, portions of the church are the chancel arch, one small with grain and roots in rotation. The area is 349 acres; window in the nave and the north and south doorways: rateable value, £566; and the populatilJn in 1881 was 50. south of the chancel arch is an arched recess in the wall Parish Clerk, Joseph Argar. facing west, where was once an altar and there is a hagio- Letters through Folkestone. The nearest money order offices scope: nOrth of the chancel is an oblong recess, perhaps an are at Uphill; neaIest telegraph office at Folkestone aumbry: there are Ioo sittings, all free: the church was The children of this parish attend the Board School at Acrise Bflker George, farmer, Eh'ington Gammon Robt. Marsh, farmer, Cole frm Hogben Mary (Mrs.), grazier, Cob- Dixon Robert, Red Lion Gibbins 'William, carpenter ham's rongh Dixon Robert, jun. blacksmith Godden John, dairyman Hood Samuel, grazier Finch William, farmer Hogben Nicholas, grazier, Whitehall Swain William, dairyman, Terlingham PADDOCK WOOD, a hamlet in Brenchley civil parish MaIling rural deanery, Maidstone archdeaconry and Can-' was, with portions of the parishes of Yalding and Nettle- terbury diocese, 21 miles north from Brenchley and 10 stead, fQrmed into an ecclesiastical parish in i:86o: it is in south from Maidstone. Here is a. station at the junction Of the Mid division of the county, lathe of Aylesford, Ton- the line to Maidstone with the main line of the South_ bridge union, Tunbridge Wells county court district, Sonth I Eastern railway. The church of St. Andrew is a. building 0t
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