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DIRECTQRY.] KENT. BEWINGTON. 447 Elham petty sessional division and union, Hyilhe county population in 1901 was, civil 4°3, ecclesiastical 818. court district and in the rural deanery of Elham and By Local Government Board Order 19,001, dated March archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury. A small stream 25, 1886, a detached part of this parish known as Marwood flows through the parish. The church of St. Nicholas is was transferred to Lympne. of stone, partly in lhe Perpendicular style, and has a Peene is half a mile north; Frogholt, half a mile west; wooden turret containing 5 OOl1s: there are several brasses Harpinge (or Arpinge), a mile and a half north-ea.st; and a memorial window to Don Margaretta Brockman: Bargrove, a mile and a half south-west. the church was restored in 1869, and has 200 sittings, 75 Parish Clerk, John Marsh. • being free. The regist.er dates from the year 1559. The . living is a vicarage, net yearly value [,2°7, with residence Post Ofl'ice.-.A.1fred George Fisher, sub-postmaster. Let- and 7 acreil' of glebe, in the gift of Fraucis Drake Brock- ters arrive from Folkestone at 7 B.m.; sundays, 7 a..m. ; man esq. and held since '1880 by the Rev. Leigh- dispatched at 8·50 a.m. &; 8 p.m.; sundays, 7·35 p.m. ton Buckwe1l M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. .A. small Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The charity of £3 IOS. yearly, arising from land, is distri- nearest money order &; telegraph office is Oheriton buted in caal a'nd clothing. Remains of entrenchments Street, 2 miles distant and Roman pottery have been found here. Francis Drake Wall Letter Box, Arpinge, cleared at 8 a.m. &; 7.20 p.m Brockman esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and princIpal National School (mixed &; infants), built in 1869, &; en- landowner and resides at Beachborough House, which larged in 1892, for lIO children; average attendance, stands in a park of about 300 acres. The soil is light; 84> supported in part by an endowment of £12 lOB. subsoil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats yearly, derived from land; and the interest of [,500 and roots. The area is 2,469 acres of land and 4 of from the residue of the estate of the late Mrs. Thomp- water ; rateable value, £5,7°2; the son; George William Blunt, master Brockman Francis Drake J.P. Beach- Fisher Alfred Geo. baker, Post office Mackeson &; Co. maltsters; head office horough house Godden Stephen, cowkeeper, Arpinge at Hythe . Buckwell Rev. Leighton M.A. (viclllr), Gra.ves Frederia William, farmer, Maycock Ohas. carpenter &; wheelwt Vicarage Pound, Longport &; Grove farms Maycock HeDTy, Star P.H Cla.y John Scott, Grove ho'Use,.A.rpinge Hambrook Edwin, farmer &; lime Pilcher Thomas William, head ~ar- Lipscomb Mrs. Pe~me house burner, Arpinge dener to F. D. Brockman esq. J.P Woollett William. Peene house HogOOn Edwd.Percy, frmr.Arpinge fm Salmon Russell Hy. land agent for F. Amos Elizabeth (Mrs.), carrier, Peene Hogben Philip Oliver,frmr.Coombe fro D. Brockman esq. J.P. Frogholt ho Buckwell CecilLeightan,frmr.Stone fm Jarman James, blacksmith Stockwell &; Hogben, millers (water) Dadds Alfred Ellis, farmer &; grazier, Jeffery Oharles, farmer, Arpinge Webb Thos.Edwin,farmer,Dilgate frm Bargrove farm Marsh John, grocer & beer retailer Wood James, blacksmith NEWINGTON (juxta Sittingbourne) is a parish and trustees of Edward Leigh, and Richard G. E. Locke esq. of small town, with a station on the South Eastern and Hartlip, Alfred Harnett esq. the trustees of George Chatham railway, 8 miles east from Rochester, 3 west Smeed and L. Ruck esqrs. Sir Robert ,MaTeus Filmer from 'Milton and Sittingbourne and 37 from London, in bart. of 22 Lowndes street, London S W, Miss Dodd and the North Eastern division of the county, lathe of Scray, Meroon College, Oxford. Newington was possibly the sta Milton hundred and unio'n, county court district of Sit. tion Durolevum or Durolenum; many entrenchments exist tin~bourne, and in the rural deanery of Sittingbourne, here, and numerous urns and vessels have been dug up. archdeaconry of Maidstone and diocese of Canterbury. Key-Col Hill derives its name from the Latin Call Colli! The Saxons called it "Newetone." or "New Town." and or Caius Julius Cresar's Hill and Key Street from Caii it was built on the sit~ of a Roman village or station on Stratum. In the 181h Elizabeth (1575) a market was Watlin!? Street. The church of St. Mary is of flint, dliefly held here on Tuesdays, but has now been discontinued. Ut the Decorated style, with some Early Enj?lish portions, The chief crops are hops, fruit and wheat. Over 250 and has a tower of Perpendicular date containinl? 6 bells: acres are ihop j:iTounds of choice character and the or the church contains an altar-tomb: the stained east chard land is equally celebrated for its productions of window was erected in 1873: there is a memorial window cherries, apples and pears. Watercress is also cultivated to George Catt. d. 1879, and another, erected in 1897, and here. The area is 2,II5 acres; rateable value, £9,487; some brasses with effigies and a remarkable chest banded the populati()n in 1901 was 1,°72. with iron: there are 350 sitting-s, 150 being free. The Breach is 3 hamlet. one mile west-north-west from the reg-ister of baptisms dates from the year 1564; marriag-es village; Danaway, Il south-east on the road to Maid and burials, 15';8. The living' is a vicarage, net yearly stone. Nunfield Farm, Ohesley, 11 south from the value £210, with g-lebe (£10) and residence, in the gift church, was the site of a Benedictine priory. of the Provost and Fellows of Eton Colleg-e, and held since r899 by the Rev. Arthur St. Quintin Sproule M.A. Parish Clerk, William George Osborne. of Keble College, Oxford. The vicarial tithes were com- Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel muted in 1840 for 1300 128. Id. and extraordinary tithe Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office. Charles £43 7s. 3d. There is an acre of vicarial $!lebe and about, Styles, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Sitting- 22 acres annexed to the parsona!?e. The Wesleyan chapel bourne at 6·55 a.m. et 12 & 2.25 p.m.; sundays at 6·55 was erected in 1880. The charities consist of a piece of a.m. ; dispatched at II.15 a.m. & 12.45,6.50 &; ID p.m. land and a barn, called "Poor's Barn Estate," left by sundays at II·55 a.m. &; 8 p.m. Railway Station, Box Simon Tomlin esq. in the year 1689, and now (1902 ) pro- cleared at 6 p.m ducing about [,10 a year: a. plot of land called "Playstool," Wall Letter Box, Church lane, cleared at 9.45 a.m. &; 6 has been exchan~d for a piece much larger, amounting p.m.; sundays lI.20 a.m to three acres and let out in allotments, numbering 24 National School (boys &; girls). for 160 children; average lots at 5s. each, the parish paying the rates: an acre of attendance, 139; H. J. W. Matthews, master; Edward wood, called" Maiden Wood," is cut about every 14 years Henry, attendance officer for hop poles. and then produces' about £5, but the Railway Station, John Grensted, station master poor of this parish were formerly in the habit of cuUin~ what wood ~hey liked for fuel from this estate: the Oarriers to amount of these charities is laid out in bread and dis- Faversham John Shepherd, every tues. thurs. &; sat. tribut~d to the poor on Sunday morning after service; from his house, Newington , three quarter9 of wheat from the parsonage estate are Rochester John Shepherd, every mono wed. &; fri. from also distributed yearly on April 6th. his house, Newington is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Rainham &i Maidstone-William Simmo'ns, every tuea. Lord Harris G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. Mr. James Snoard, the thurs. &; sat. from Rainham PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wickham Mrs. The Holme CremeI' Benjamin, frmr. Breach farm F.dmed Mrs. Breach COMlmBCIAL. Cremer Henry, coal merchant Hllmett Alfred. Cheslev Anlell William Smart, farmer, Spring- Dance John William. fruit grower " Harnett Mrs. Nunfield house field house Denne ',l'homas A. plumber Ledgoer Edward, Holly bank Black James, fruit~rer Eason Georg-e, farm bailiff to'R. G. E. Lnrlgater Miss, Mansfield house Boyse In. Thos. mrkt. g-ardnr.&i fruitr Locke, Hartlip McAnnallv Edward Arthur L.R.C.P. Brittenden William. buildel' Edmed James, fruit grower &; nur- Lond. Newington house Busbridge Edward, farm bailiff to F. seryman, Breach gardens 'RiphUlonrl St:mlf'v. MOTlpv cotta[!~ T. Knight esq Edmonds Christopher, Wheatsheaf inn Spronle Rev. Art,hur St. Quintin, M.A. Hm:hrirll?e MArk, market ~aY'dener Evans Martha (Miss), drapel' (vicar). The Vicarag-e BusbridR"e William, George inn Hadlow Frank, shopkpr. &; blaeksmith Toogoood Mrs. Hillside Conlev George H. Le.g"h Arms P.H Hanmer John, farmer &; fruit grower, . • Web~) Arthur S. Cranbrooke manor Cox William, grocer & draper Orchard house.