DIRECTORY.] KENT. WHITSTABLE. • 671 ticulars of the union are given under Ashford. The Wes- Ashford, arrive at 7-35 a.m.; dispatched at 6.go p.m. leyans and Baptists have each a chapel here. The principal The nearest money order office & telegraph office is at landowners are Lord Hothfield D.L., J.P. who is lo~d of the Charing. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid manor, and the Earl of Winchilsea. The soil is various ; WALL LETTER BOXES :-Hothfield Heath, cleared at 6.30 subsoil, gravel, chalk and loam. Th3 chief crops are p. m & sundays at 6.30 p.m. ; West well Leacon, cleared wheat, beans and hops. The area is 5,x8o acres; rateable at 9 a. m. & 6.30 p.m. ; sundays, 9 a.m -value £6,484 ; the population in I 88 I was 9::15· including 131 West Ashford Union Workhouse, John Thoma.s J ones, ()fticers and inmates in the West Ashford workhouse. master; Miss Constanca F. B. Jones, matron; W. F. HoTHFIELD HEATH, a mile and a half west, and WEsT- Johnson, medical officer; Rev. H. Honywood D'ombrain WELL LEACON, two and a half mile; north-wJst, are l:Ja.mlets B. A. chaplain; Miss Emma Scott, schoolmistress ()f this parish. National School (mixed), built in 183o, for 70 children t Sexton, Edward Clements. average attendance, 43 ; Miss Maria Simmons, mistress PosT OFFICE.-EdwardBishopp, r«.>caiver. Letters through CARRIER TO AsHFORD.-Edward Bishopp, tues. & fri Cheesman Miss, The Cottage Uheesman Robert, farmer, Court lodge Jone.'!Rd.wheelwright,Westwell L':lacon Davis Miss Davis John, wheelwright Ked ward William, farmer DavisAlfred Down Joseph, farmer Kennett Henry, Wagon& Horses P.H D'ombrain Rev. Henry Honywood B A. Earl Mrs. farmer, Tutt hill Kennett Thomas, farmer & hop grower, (chaplain to the West Ashford Union Gant Ann (Mrs.), grocer Castle farm workhouse], Vicarage Waldershare have been held since 1856, and that of sected by the new road to Sandwich and near the Roman West Langdon since I872, by the Rev. Waiter Hamilton M.A. way from Richborougb to Dover, 3 tp.iles north from Dover, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who resides at Waldershare. and I~ north east from Kearsney station on the London, Here is a Congregational chapel. The Ecclesiastical Com­ Chatham and Dover Railway: the parish is in the Eastern missioners are lords of the manor. Tha principal land­ division of the county, Bewsbury hundred, lathe of St. owners are the trustees of the Earl of Guilford (a minor) Augustine, Wingham petty sessional division, Dover union and the Rev. Henry S. Hilton. The soil is light and chalky ; and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Sand­ subsoil, chalk. ·The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips wich and arcbdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury. The &c. . The area is 9I4 acres ; rateable value, £1,644; the church of St. Peter is a small edifice of flint and rubble in population in x88x was 317. the Norman style, consisting of chancel with aisle, nave, AsHLEY, including NAPCHESTER and WEsT STRUDALL, in south porch and a wooden turret at the west end containing the parish of N orthbourne, are in this parish for ecclesias­ ~ne bell: the church contains a monument to George tical purposes. Stringer, esq. late of Archer's Court : there are ISo sittings. The register dates from the year 1585. The lidng is a Parish Clerk, George Moseley. vicarage, united to the vicarage of Waldershare and (June PosT OFFICE.-George Moseley, receiver. Letters received ~8th, 1872) to the vicarage of West Langdon, joint tithe through Dover arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.45 p.m. rent-charge £331, gross yearly value £4oo, in the gift of the & snndays same. The nearest money ordor & telegraph , Archbishop of Canterbury, who has four turns in the pre- office is at Ewell.. Postal ord,ers are issued here, but not ' eentation to West Langdon and the Dean and Chapter of paid. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Vickers Rev. Valentine Shilleto [ curate], Marsh John, shoe maker Crundall Henry, Westfield cottage Rolls court Mummery Frank, miller (wind) Davison Charles, Elvington cottage COMMERCIAL. S utton Ma~gt. J ana( Miss), RoyalOak P. H Haseldine John Collard Isaac, shopkeeper Tapley Edward, surveyor & inspector Hills Mrs. Cambridge house Davison Thomas, corn factor of nuisances for Dover rural sani· Marx Rudolph Gardner George, provision dealer tary authority & vaccination officar Mayes Frederick, Whitfield house Gardner Wm. farmer, Archer's court for Dover union, Sparrow court Mowll Edward Worsfold, Beauxfield Grant John, thatcher Turner Benjamin, farmer house Holttum William, carpenter Williams Joseph Alexander,nursaryman: Tapley Ed ward, Sparrow court Marsh George, grazier WHITSTABLE, with SEASALTER. WHITSTABLFl is a seaport and watering place on the bay of company: the town is lighted with gas by a company formed that name, 6 miles north from Canterbury, 6! north-eastfrom in x85o, and supplied with water from works situated Faversham and 59 from London by the London, Chatham at Bostal bill, the property of a company formed in 1877. and Dover railway, which has a station here: the South The church of All Saints, situated on an elevated spot in the Eastern Railway Uompany has a branch to the town from hamlet of Church Street, at a distance from the town, is a their main line at Canterbury : it is a polling place for the building in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and • Eastern divi'lion of the county, lathe of St. Augustine, consists of chancel with aisle, nave, north aisle, north porch · Bleangate, Westgate and Whitstable hundreds, Horne petty and a tower on the south-west containing 6 be.lls; the nave 8eSSional division, Blean union, Canterbury county court is wide and has an arcade of four arches. with large octa­ district and in the rural deanery of W estbere and arch- gonal piers, the chancel arcade being of two arches : on the deaconry and diocese of Canterbury. Wbitstable and Sea-- south side of the entranca to the chancel are traces of the &Iter include what was formerly known as the "Borough rood door and steps: in the nave is a brass inscription of ~~ Harwich," but its boundary is said to be now unrecog- early date, and there is another to Joane, wife of Christopher uizable. Whitstable is remarkable for its oyster fishery, the Govlsonn and afterwards of Thomas Gold, ob. 8 Jan. 1629: produce of which is highly esteemed: beside the natives the church has been restored at a. cost of £4.000 raised by grown here spat from other districts is laid in these subscriptions, the walls being rebuilt, the window mullions beds to mature: this fishery is under the control and renewed, the nave roof reconstructed, the chancel entirely management of the Incorporated Company of Dredgers, rebuilt and a new vestry erected: the stained east window, whose affairs are administered by a foreman, deputy foreman erected at the cost of the late Rev. Artbur Conrad Gray stone and a jury of twelve men, chosen from among their body; LL.M. vicar of Durleigh, Somerset ( 1879-86), is a memorial to the Company numbers about soo members, admitted by tbelateWynnEllisesq.whogaveapieceoflandasanaddition . right of inheritance and taking up their freedom at the age to the churchyard in the year 1875, and erected a costly man­ . of 21, unless disqualified by previous marriage : the freemen soleum, in which his remains, together with those of his wife, . of the Company share all its property and-privileges, non- are deposited: an organ, purchased by subscription, was ·working members and widows receiving about one-third of placed in the church in the year x889: there are 450 sittings. a full member's share, and sick members rather less than The register dates from the year 1556. The living is a full pay : a fleet of smacks is employed in carrying oysters vicarage, net yearly value£300, including 20 acres of glebe, ·to London and in dredgmg. The trade of the town, arising with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, , both from its fishery and coal trade, is considerable, and it and held since 1871 by the Rev. Henry Macdonald Maugham .has a good harbour, the property of the South Eastern rail way 1\I.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, I