" • PIUVATE' :RESIDENTS. Fowle Goorge, 'butCher 'Potts Thomas,C.I.E., &; R.A.M.S.iancf Blake Mrs. Swarling honse Fuggle Herban John, grocer, Post off stewaro.. to -Col. Samuel John Mackay Hy. Ramsay, Petham house Gam~ill Thoma~ Henry~ traction Thomson, &; hop grower, Lower Sidebotham Rev. Frederick William engme & thrashmg machine owner, Kenfield . Gilbert M.A. (vicar), Vicarage agricultural implement &; cycle repr Radford Charles, wood (I'eeve to Ken- White Mrs. Street End house Harvey Percy John, farmer &; hop field estate Wilson Wm. Hy. ebas. Kenfield hall grower, Sappington court Smith Arthur, boot &; shoe maker . Harvey William, farmer, Debden Smith John, grocer &; baker , COMMERCIAL. Kennett Stephen, farmer, Duck pit Uden Ernest, carpenter Ilennett Edward, smith, Street End Mackay Hy..Ramsey,landowner & frmr Wood James F. Chequers P.R.& frmr Brice George, carpenter Marsh Richard, Duke's Head P.R WOGd John, builder &; contractor; &; Ilurton Jane (Mrs.), blacksmith Neves Thomas, farmer at Chartham Cook John, boot &; shoe maker & Pilcher Thomas, farmer & landowner, Woad Valentine, farmer, Dane farm farmer. Staple Cross fann West Wootton farm

PLATT is an ecclesiastical parish, formed from the parish. At Ilastedal'e the extensive paper mills beloIlK­ civil parish of , CFebruary 3rd, 1846, It miles ing to the Ilasted Paper Mills Co. Limited. A stream south-east from Wrotham station on the Swanley and here, passing the mills, falls into the Med.way beyond section of the South Eastern and Chatham . Basted House is the residence of C. Reginald railway, and 7! east from ; it is in the Mid Smith eSq. , '. divisio'lll of the county, lathe of , Wrotham Sexton, Rueben Prentice. hlmdred, Mailing union, Sevenoaks county court district. . and in the rural deanery of Shoreham and archdeaconry Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & InsuranC9 Office~ of Maidstone. The church of St. Mary, erected. in 1843, St. Mary's Platb. RegiIlald C. Pearson, sub-post- is of stone, and has a tower containing one bell: there master. Letters from S.O. arrive at are sittings for 500 persons, 398 being free. The -regis- 7.30 a.m. &; 11.30 a.m.; dispatched at 9.10 & II·30 ter dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage. a.m. & 6,45 p.m.; sundays, dispatched at 12.20 noon. net annual value £270, with residence and 4 acres of BOITough Green I mile distant, is the nearest tele- glebe, in the gift of the hchbishop of Canterbury, and graph office held since 1898 by the Rev. George Billing M.A. of St. Post, M. D. &; T. 0., T. M. D., Express Delivery, Parcel John's College, Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel Post, S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office, Wrotham at Borough Green, erected in 1817. The principal land- Heath.-Frederick Carlow, sub-postmaster. Letters owners are the Hon. Ralph Pelliam Nevill, of Birling from Wrotham S.O. arrive at 7.30 & II.55 a.m.; dis- Manor, the Rev. James Sandford Bailey M.A. of 21 patched at 8 a.m. & 6.20 p.m.; sundays arrive at 7·3<> Clifton terrace, Brighton, and the trustees of WaIter a.m.; dispatched, 11.40. a.m Monckton esq. of Park. 'Ihe soil is gravel, Wall Letter Box.-Clay Gates cross, 7.20 a.m. & 5.2 $ sand and clay; subsoil, clay.. The chief crops are fruit p.m. sundays 7.20 a.m and hops. The area. is 2,694 acres; rateable value (in- National School, built in 1846, for 220 children; average eluded in Wrotham); the population in 1901 was 952. attendance, 190; Arthllil" J. Dover, master; Mrs. E. F. Basted, Crouch and part of Borough Green are in this Dover, mistJress PLATT. Dover Arthur J.school master & orgnst Smith Norman King &; Rowland King.. , PRIVATE RESIDENTS. East Henry, poultry fann farmers & fruit growers, Platt farm 13illing Rev. George M.A. Vicarage Evenden John, blacksmith, Crouch Stiles John, Ilrickmakers' hms P.R Blundell Mrs. Winfield house Fuller Edward, beeC' retailer Turner John C. farmer Cadby Willie K. PIatt cottage Gardiner Roger, fruit &; hop grower, West Arthur, commercial traveller Collings Albert Ernest, Stone house Basted West Frank, miller (steam) Lowe James Hemy, Basted Green William, Illack Horse P.R Wolfe Henry, fruit grower, Crouch Mackrell Mrs. Crouch Howe HaITiet (Mrs.),beer rtlr.Crollch Maxwell P, Heron, Great Comp Ingram Ellen (Mrs.),shopkeeper,Clay WROTHAM HEATH, Simmons Henry, Crouch ha. Crouch Gate Cross Smith C. Reginald, Basted house Johnstone Wm. Plough inn, Basted Lewis William Cuthbert, Millwood Terry John, The Grange King Henry, farmer, Crouch Mansel The Misses, Nepical' lodge Turner Mrs. Charlewood,Warren wood Llll'lser Charles, farmer, Beechin wood Thomas Robert Christphr. Heath hI> Warren Louis, Hill view Little Septimus Harry, farmer & fruit Baker Charles, agent to The Misses West Frank grower, Crouch Mansel, Nepical' lodge , Margrett Morris Hill, Star & Garter Baldwin J ames, shopkeeper COMMERCUL. P.H. Crouch Carlow Fredk. baker & grocer,Post off Barnes William, shopkeeper Max',,'ell P,atk.Heton, farmer,Gt.Comp Carter Obadiah, carman Ilasted Paper Mills Co. Limited Pascall Thomas & Sons, brickmakers Harrington Fredk. farmel',Windmill hJ Batt Clam (Miss), apal'tmnts. Crouch Pearson Reginald C. grocer & draper, LeaveI' Martha (Miss), shopkeeper Bennett Hezekiah, farmer Post Office Luxford William, blacksmith Ilradford Philadelphia (Mrs.),dress ma Rogers William, boot &; shoe maker Roberis Harry, shopkeeper ' : Coleman & Sons, fruit growers Sayers Charles, Chequers P .H.& grcr. Stiles Thomas, Royal Oak P.H. (Chas. Collings Henry, farmer, Middle Comp Crouch Pollicott, manager) Cunningham Wm. coal dealr. Crouch Simmons Henry, farmer, Crouch Usmar Alfred Thomas, grocer PLAXTOLE is a village and ecclesiastical parish, in a park on the borders of the parish adjoining Ship­ formed 3 Feb. 1846, from the civil parish of Wrotham. borne. The principal landowners are W. M. Cazalet esq. It is 3 miles south from Wrotham station, on the Swan­ IvIax Hammond Dalison esq. of Hamptons, Sir William ley and Maidstone section of the South Ea.stern and Chat­ N. M. Geary bart. of Oxon Hoath, and Mr. Thomas ham railway, 7 south-east from Sevenoaks and 5~ north Golding. The soil is loamy and rocky; subsoil, clayey. from , in the Mid division of the county, The chief crops are hops, wheat, oats, barley, turnips hundred of Wrotham, lathe of Aylesford, union and petty &c, The area is 2,045 acres; the population in 19°% sessicmal divisiou of Malling, Sevenoaks county court was 1,014. ,district, rural deanery of Shoreham, and archdeaconry of At Dunk's Green, within this parish, half a mile south.. Maidstone. The Bourne', rUnning from Ilasted tD Had­ is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1899, with ISO low~ flows through ,the parish. The church, erected ~n sittings. -r 1649, and originally a chapel to Wrotham, is in the Late Parish Clerk, Henry Rogers. ' Perpendicular style, and has a chancel, built in 1894, at a cost of £650, and transepts in 1894, at a cost of £1,500: Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel y~ar there are 400 sittings. The :register dates from the Post, S. 13. &; .Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. 1648. The living was declared a rectory August 31st, Frances Sophia Burtenshaw. sub~postmistress. Lel;­ 1866, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift ters arrive from Sevenoaks at 6.30 a.m. &; 1.35 p.m.;.. of the Arrchbishop of Canterbury, and held since 1902 b}­ dispatched at 11.15 a.m. &; 7. p.m. &; sundays, 10 a.m the Re\'_ Edward, Herbert Taylor M.A. of Trinity College. Dublin. The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1893' Post Office, Dunks Green. James Woodgate, sub­ Roughway Paper Mills, in this parish, engaged exclusiveiy postmaster. Letters JiQrongh Tonbridge & Hadlow Oll Government work. afford employment to a number arrive at 7.2~ a.m. &; 2.30 p.m:; sundays 7.25 a.m.:;. of the inhabitants; and there is a Village librarJ- with dispatched ai{ ~·45 a.m. &; 5·45 p.In.; sundays, 9·45 over 1,000 volumes. The annual cha.rities amount to a.m. Postal 'Orders are issued here, but not paid~ about £4. Fairlawn, the propelrty of William Marshall Plaxtole, 2 miles, distant', is the nearest money order 'k. 'Ca,;alet esq. J.P. i~ a large mansion, pleasantly situated telegraph office . ,