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Brooks John Charles, builder Coleman William,beer retailer & shpkpr Oyler Thomas Henry, farmer,Laddscn Brown John, carrier Dray John, fruit & hop grower Parrett Richard, farmer, Ashurst lodge Buss Samuel( trustees of the late), land­ Foster Thomas, landowner, farmer & Peen William, undertaker owners,frmrs.& hop growers, Park ho fruit grower, New house Potts Da,;d, farm bailiff to Messrs. William Noakes, Son & Collard Chapman John, farmer, hop & fruit Joy• John, blacksmith grower ; & at East Sutton Miskin Arthur, farmer & hop grower, Rose Walter, farmer & hop grower Chittenden Edwin, registrar of births, Elderden SedgwickThos.Richd. farmr .&hop growr deaths & marriages for Headcorn Morgan Edward, farm bailiff to the Stedman John William, farmer, Place district & relieving, vaccination, trustees of the late Charles N eve esq. Wood farm school inquiry & attendance officer Hermlen Stedman Thomas, farmer & cattle dlr for No. 2 district & inspector of Neve Charles (trusteeil of the late), Wen ham William Young, blacksmith nuisances to· the rural sanitary landowners, farmers & hop growers, Wood James, jun. brick maker authority, Laurel house Amberfield CHARTHAM, with HORTON. CHARTR-'.M is a parish ·and village, near the road from Lunatic Asylum, erected in 1875 on Chartham Downs at a Canterbury to Ashford, on the river Stour, amid a fertile cost of £25o,ooo, from designs by Messrs. Giles and Gough, vale and pastures, with a :,tation on the Ashford and Rams­ is a red brick building, commanding a fine view of the river gate branch of the South Eastern railway, 3 miles south-west Stour and covering with its grounds an area of seven acres; from Canterbury, 11 north-east from Ashford and 6-; miles the building consists of central entrance, with offices and com­ from London, in the Eastern division of the county, lathes mittee rooms, two blocks on either side, six in the rear and of St. Augustine and Scray, Felborough and Westgate a chapel in the centre: it will hold 900 patients, and in 1890 hundreds, Bridge union, Canterbury county court district, had an average number in attendance of 850. Mystole is the petty sessional division of Horne, West Bridge rural deanery residence of the Rev. Edward Neville Crake M.A. formerly and Canterbury archdeaconry and diocese. Chartham is dean and vicar oi Battle. The Dean and Chapter of Canrer. built round a green, with the parsonage and church on the bury are lords of the manor. George Bowdler Gipps esq. south side of it. 'The church of St. Mark is a long and John Darell Blount esq. and the trustees of the late Sir John narrow cruciform building of flint, stone and brick, chiefly Fagge bart. (d. 1873) are the largest landowners. The soil in the Early Dec0rated style, and consists of chancel, nave, is light loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, transepts, north porch and a battlemented western tower of barley, oats and hops. The area is 4,568 acres; rateable Perpendicular date, containing a clock and 6 bells: the value, £9,36r; the population in r88r was 2,473, including chancel windows are all very elegant and retain much of 763 in the East Kent Lunatic Asylum. the original stained glass, and this part of the church is alsu SH~LMSFOim STREET is a considerable hamlet, adjoining rich in sepulchral remains, principally brasses ; these in­ Chartham; CHARTHAM HATCH (or Hatch Green), I mile clude: 1. a fine brass on a grey slab of a knight, cross-legged north, is another hamlet. and clad in mail, with a surcoat and shield ernblazoned with HORTON, half a mile north-east, contains 399 acres and is the arms of Septvans and a Lombardic inscription, now im­ a chapelry, or hamlet, with 14 houses; DENSTEAD is 2 miles perfect, to Sir Robert de Septvans, 1306 ; this brass is north, in Blean Forest, as is PETTY FRANCE ; HowFIELD remarkable as bein-.! one of the earliest known examples, and adjoins Milton; NrcKHILL is I mile north-west; MYSTOLB, has been engraved in Bout ell's "Monumental Brasses ; " 2. a mile and a half south-west ; UNDERDOWN, I mile south; a very small brass of a priest, representing Robert London, THRUXTED, I mile south. a former rector, 1416, also engraved in the same work; 3· Parish Clerk, Henry Attwood. a brass of Rubert Sheffield, a former rector, in surplice and almuce, 1508; 4· a brass of Robert Arthur, a former rector, Pmn, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- a large figure, in cope, 1454; 5· a small figure of a iady, George Shrubsole, receiver. Letters arrive from Canter- with an invocatory inscription, to Jane Dowther, of Lewys bury by mail cart at 6.ro & IL45 a.m. & 5.15 p.m.; dis- Clefforth, 1530: in the north wall of the chancel is a seg- patched at r2.15 & 7.40 p.m. ; sundays, 11.30 a.m. i menta l arc l1, me· 1 osmg • a marbl c tom b , t h e Sl"d es o f w h"rc 11 are alternate, 12 ·, dispatched, 7 a.n1 panelled with trefoiled arches: the font dates only from 1720 : LETTER Box at Shalmsford ~treet cleared 7· 25 p.m. sundays there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year excepted 1558. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Horton East Kent Lunatic Asylum, medical superintendent, Robert annexed, average yearly value from tithe rent-charge £6r6, Spencer L.R.C.P.L. ; senior assistant medical officer, net income £540, with residence and 30 acres of glebe, in J ames Norman Anwyl L.R.C.P.Lond. ; junior assistant, the gift of thE! Archbishop of Canterbury, an cl held since 1873 \Villiam Everett M.B., c.M. ; chaplain, Rev. P. J. Syree; by the Rev. Cyril Randolph 1\I.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. clerk to the committee of visitors, Alien Fielding, Can· There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels here. terbury; clerk & steward, T. Barton; matron, Miss M. G. On the Stour is the paper manufactory of Mr. John Howard, Boyce giving employment to nearly 2oo hands. On Chartham A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1874; F. S. Downs were formerly a considerable number of barrows, Cloke, Canterbury, clerk to the board; George Norris, now ploughed up, in which at various times have been attendance officer found the remains of bodies, articles of pottery and trinkets, Board School (mixed), erected in 18721 for 325 children; mostly Anglo-Saxon, and on the contiguous plains of Sward- average attendance, 250; Philip Flatten, master ing Downs are three lines of entrenchments. The East Kent Railway Station, Edward Gorham Hilder, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Coltham George, farmer Jordan James, bailiff to .A.rthur Finn Anwyl James Norman L.R.C.P.LOnd. Colthup Edwin, bailiff to the exors. of esq. Deanery farm Lunatic asylum Peter Martin esq. Nick Hill farm Le Feavre Charles, farmer, Perry farm Burden John, The Firs Coombes William, Chapter Arms P.H Marten Stephen Watson, farmer, Cobb Lieut.-Col. John, The Deanery Corrie Fras. A. & Son,frmrs.Horton crt Shalmsford bridge Corrie Francis A. Horton court Cruttenden ~"il1iam & Son, wheel- Martin J ames, carpenter Crake Rev.Edward NevilleM.A. Mystole wrights, Shalmsford street Nash James, jun. grocer & coal mer Drew Charles Thomas EldridgeHerbt.Jn.saddlr.Shalmsford st Norris George, farmer, assistant over- Everett Wm. M.B., c.M.Lunatic asylum Elvy Benjamin, draper, Shalmsford st seer & school attendance officer Fagge Mr:>. The Hill Epps William, farmer, Rentain farm Pettitt Charles, chimney sweeper Harvey l\Iiss ForemanAlfred,carpentr.Shalmsford st Reed William Emmett, shopkeeper Holloway George Forwood Fanny (Miss), dress maker Rodwell Thos.millwright,Shalmsfordst MartenStphn. Watson,Shalmsford brdg Fox Thomas, jun. King's Head P.H Shrubsole George, Post office Newington Thomas Gipson John, chimney sweeper Shrubsole George William, grocer Randolph Rev. Cyril M.A. Rectory GoldupJames, Artichoke P.H Stupples James, George P.H. Shalms· SpencerH.t.L.R.c.P.Lond.Lunaticasylum Hardiman William Waiter Kingsford, ford street Sutton Thomas Seagreave Fagge Arms P.H Sutton Thomas Seagrave, surgeon, &l Syree Rev. Peter .Joseph, The Chap- Harvey Lewis & Percy, butchers, medical officer & public vaccinator, laincy, Lunatic asylum Shalmsford street No. 2 district, Bridge union COMMERCIAL. Harvey Saml. farmer,Burnt House frm Terry ·william, blacksmith Ealdock Edwin, carrier HarveyWilliamFinch(exors.of),farmers Warden Alfred,CrossKeys P.H.Bolt'li hl l3aldock Phcebe ()'Irs. ), beer ret.& frmr & hop growers, Thruxted farm Warman Alfred T. boot maker Baldock Stephen, grocer & baker Hooker Wm. miller (steam & water) Watson Joseph, grocer & baker,Shal.ms- Bisbop Abraham, butcher Hopkins Stephen, farm bailiff to James ford street Bryant Harry, farmer & hop grower, H.Harvey esq.ofShottenden,Chilham Windle Wm. fruit grower, Underdown Howfield manor Horton Henry Alfred, baker Wood John, bricklayer, Shalmsford ~ Burchett Ambrose, boot & shoe maker, Howard John, paper manufacturer, Wyles Lucy (Mrs.), Railway tavern Shalmsford street Chart.ham Paper mills