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402 NORTHBOURNE. XENT. [KELLY'S NORTHBOURNE, so named from its situation at 'the of . The principal landowners are Sir WaIter souree of a small brook running to "Sandwich, is a parish, in Charles James bart. Frederick Morrice esq. Henry Hannam the Eastern division of the county, Cornilo hundred, lathe esq. and -the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Admiral Rice, of St. Augustine, union of , Deal county court and and the EaTl of Guilford. The soil is loamy; subsoil, chalk. police district, Sandwich rural deanery, diocese and archdea­ Thechief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Theareais 3,628 conry of Canterbury, 3 miles south-west from Deal and 4 acres; t"ateable value £7,168 ; and the population in I881 south from Sandwich. Thechurch of St. Augustine is a eru­ was 947. ciform building of rough flint and brick, in the Norman and ASHLEY,4 miles south-westhasa Methodistchapel; FINGLES­ Early English styles, often intermixed in a curious manner, HAM, one mile and a half north (here is a Methodist chapel) ; consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and a eentral tower, LITTLE BETTESHANGER, I mile west; and MARLEY, I mile containing 5 bells: over a vault in the south transept is a north, are hamlets in this parish. Inarble monument to Sir Edwin Sandys and his family, who NAPCHESTER, MINKER and are in a de­ are buried here; upon it are recuInbent effigies of a knight tached portion of Northbourne parish. in armour and his lady; and above the pendiment and TICKENHURST is a detached part of the parish, in Eastry around it are several armorial shields; there is a costly hundred and union, I mile north-west from Eastry, with reredos and a beautiful stained window, given by Sarah, I45 acres and 30 inhabitants. widow of Charles HannaIn esq. of Northbourne Court, in Parish Clerk, Leonard Horton. luemory of her husband; in the north transept are Inemo­ POST OFFICE-James Kidder, receiver. Letters arrive viii rial windows to H. J. Hutchinson esq. and the Rev. Thomas Deal at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.In. WALL Box, Fingles­ Hutchinson, for I7 years rector of this parish. The register I ham, cleared 5.45 p.m. week days & 10.15 a.m. sundays. dates from the year I586. The living is a rectory, net yearly Letters for Finglesham, Tickenhurst & Little Betteshanger, ,-alue £300, with residence and IO acres of glebe, in the gift vid Sandwich, for Ashley vid . The nearest money of the Archbishop of Canterbury and hel1 since 1877 by the order & telegraph office is at Eastry Rev. Thomas Wood M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. Ashley WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5 p.m The manor of Northbourne was given in 618, by Eadbald, National School, built in 1850 for 19~ children, average at­ King of , to the Inonastery of St. Augustine, at Canter­ . tendance 140 & supported by voluntary contributions, bury; it subsequently came into the hands of the Crown, school fees & a government grant, Samuel Jolliffe, but is now the property of Sir WaIter Charles James bart. master; Mrs. Jolliffe, mistress Northbourne. Parker Upton, agent to Thomas Finn, Finglesham. Hannam Mrs. Northbourne court Abbey farm Bullock William, Holly Tree house Mackney Miss Walker Geo. Hy. crpntr. & wheelwright Smith Edward Chater, West street hou"se Sneller Onesiphorus, Hope cottage ~?,~stall G~o~ge Alfre~, carpenter Thomas George, West Hill house Wood Rev. Thomas M.A. Rectory WIlhams WI1ham Edwm, baker COMMERCIAL. COMMER{)IAL. . Ashley. Atkins Mark, market gardener, Barttrum John, market gardener Belsey Edward, farmer, Minaker Tickenhurst Burrows Wm. farmer, Telegraph farm Cock Daniel, beer retailer Bedwell John William, farmer Crouch Henry, miller & farmer, North- Harvey Squire Underdown, farmer Ford WiHiam, Crown, & market grdnr bourne mill Jnge Alfred, farmer, West Studdal Harvey William (exors. of), farmer Dixon Will.iam, blacksmith Jones James,farmer & timber merchant, Horsnell Rhoda (Mrs.), shopkeeper Famariss G-eorge, farmer, Vine farm Ashley Borough Mercer John, farmer Fuller Thomas Mackney, miller & frmr Kember John, beer retailer, Minaker Pritchard Elizbth.Jones (Mrs.),beer rtlr Hooker John, farm bailiff to Wm. E. Kirby George, farmer & pork butcher Sayer Charles, market gardenet: Long esq. Cold Harbour Kirby Samuel, farmer & fire wood Sayer John, carpenter Inge May, farmer, Stoneheap farm dealer, Little America Wilson Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Marley ~Iackney Elizbth. Sarah (Miss), shpkpr Petman George, shoe Inaker Wing Harry, farm bailiff to Sir WaIter Mackney John, grucer & draper Wellard William, shopkeeper Charles James hart. Little Bettes- NethersoleMy.Ann(Mrs.),Hare.fHounds Wootton Anthony,frmr. Gt. Napchester hanger Solley Alfd. Jas. farmer, Church farm Wyborn Edwd. frmr. Little Nap~hester 'Wyborn Hy. Inarket gardener, How wall NORTHFLEET is a village and extensive parish, tnostly church contams a good monumental bust of Mrs. Fortresse, within the parliamentary borough of Gravesend, 22 miles ob. 1740; a rich monument of marble to Mr. Critch and his by railway from London and 2 west from Graves~nd, in the wife; and two slabs, each bearing a floriated cross. The Mid division of the county, in the hundred of Toltintrough, register dates from the year 1539. The living is a vicarage, union of North Aylesford, county court district of Graves- yearly value £500 with residence, in the gift of the Crown end, lathe of Aylesford, rural deanery of Gravesend, arch- and held by the Rev. Frederic Southgate RA. of Emmanuel deaconry and diocese of Rochester: it has a station on the College, Cambridge, and surrogat.e. There is a Catholic • North Kent railway and a steam-boat leaves Rosherville chapel dedicated to our Immaculate Mother and St. Joseph, pier for the Tilbory line. The parish is governed by a local also a Congregational chapel. Northfleet contains some board of 18 members. The church of St. Botolph is an chalk, lime, cement and brick works; also an extensive edifice chiefly in the Later Decorated style and is perhaps the aockyard for shipbuilding. Huggens' College, situated largest and most interesting church in the diocese: that on an eminence near Stone Bridge. in this parish, is there was a church here in the Norman times seems certain, an extensive pile of buildings, consisting of fifty residences since existing records describe its re-bnilding, while in the and a chapel with a beautiful and lofty spire, founded possession of the priory of St. Andrew, at Rochester, to by the late John Huggens esq. of Sittingbourne and which Archbishop Anselm had given it, some remains of established by Act of Parliament in 1847: all the resi­ the old church are still to be seen in the three westernmost dences are now occupied by ladies and gentlemen of arches of the nave and in two -circular columns differing reduced circumstances, who have a weekly allowance of specially from other columns in the church: the present 20S. each: the chapel was consecrated in 1870 and endowed nave of the church was commenced probably about the with £250 per year and residence for the maintenance of a beginning of the thirteenth century, but the work was inter- chaplaincy, now held by the Rev. Matthew Mortimer Ffinch rupted and it was not finished until nearly '1300: the B.A. of Oriel College, Oxford: the college is under the chancel is of later date, having been built or finished by management of trustees. The I<'actory Club was et'ected in Peter deLacey, then rector andprebendary of Swordes in the the year 1878 at the sole cost of T. Bevan esq. 1.P. of Stone cathedral of Dublin (ob. !(375), whose fine brass, beautifully Park, Greenhithe, for the use of the numerous workmen restored, has been replaced in the chancel floor: the church employed at the chemical works here and is a very com­ now consists of chancel, cleristoried nave offive bays, aisles. modious and substantial building, capable of holding 900 south porch and a western tower of plain design, built in and consists of hall and galleries, :reading and billiard rooms. 1628, within the J'uins of the- former one, of which part of Northfleet anciently belonged to the Archbishop of Canter­ the walls remain; it contains 6 bells: the rood screen is one bury. The north-west marsh was formerly ocwered by the of the few fourteenth-eentury screens rent.aining in Thames, but it is now protected by high flood-gates. The and has & central arched doorway, with seven -trefoiled representatives of the late J. H. Calcraft esq. of Wareham, arches on either side: the nave was restored and reseated Dorset, are lords of the manor and principal landowners. about the year 1846 and the chancel in 1863; three ancient The soil is loam; subsoil, chalk. The area is 3,922 acres 8edilia, the canopies of which had been broken down, have of land and 404 of water; rateable value, £44,597; and been restored and an east window hall been inserted by the the population in 1871 was 6,515 ; and in 788:1, 8,282. parishioners, to the 4' Honor of God and in Memory of the Prince Consort" and there are other Iltained windows: the Parish Clerk, .A.ndrew Wharf.

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