270 DPNTON GREEN. KENT. Rogers & Sons, butchers, Longford Tester &; Booker, shopkeepers Winder Arthur, upholsterel't Bi]lafde Steadman Arthur, butcher Wareham Geo. fishmonger, Station rd Willis Elizabeth (Miss), Stemp J esse, shopkeeper Weller Harry, greengrocer Taylor Arthur Edward, builder Whiteman Edgar, grocer, Evelyn road I DYMCHURCH is an ancient town and parish in the Parish Council, consisting of 7 members. level of Romney Marsh, on the coast of the English Chairman, James Henry Hodgson Channel and on the high road from Dover to New Rom­ Clerk, Edwin Wraight, Meadow cottage, Dymchurch ney, 6 miles south from Westenhanger station on the EA.STBRIDG E is a small parish, 3 miles north-west. main line of the South Eastern and Chatham railway to but has now no church. The living is a sinecure Folkestone and Dover, 4 north-east from New Romney, 5 rectory, annexed to Dymchurch, which is the neare1' south-west from Hythe and 81 from London, in thP place for Divine worship. There are charitiea flf Southern division of the county, hundred of Worth, lathe £10 tos. annual value, derived from land left in 1757 of Shepway, liberty and union of Romney Marsh, petty by John Finch, of Lympne. The area is 1,148 acres of sesswnal division of Romney Marsh, county court dis­ land and 2 of water; rateable value, £t,2I7; popula­ trict of New Romney and in the rural deanery of South tion in 1911 was 44· Lympne and arch deaconry and diocese of Canterbury. Dymchurch was formerly a place of some importance ORGARSWICK is a small parish, consisting of only 1 and is still under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Cor­ farm and some pasture land, 2 miles north-west from poration for Romney Marsh. A charter was granted to Dymchurch, at which place the few cottagers attend this place by Edward IV. and subsequently confirmed by Divine worship. The living is a sinecure rectory, an­ Edward VI. and James I. The church of SS. Peter and nexed to Dymchurch. The area is 402 acres; rateable Paul is of stone, with some Norman features, and has value, £379; the population in 19II was 20. a tower with spire containing 3 bells : there is one JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR ROMNEY MARSH brass and a memorial to the Rev. C. E. Plater M.A. PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. rector here 1876-rgo6: the chancel has been restored, (Romney Marsh Liberty). and most of the outer walls have been rebuilt: the church affords 300 sittings, 200 being free. The regis­ Jones Archibald Stoakes esq. Belmont, Stanford, Hyth& ter of baptisms dates from the year 1637; marriages, Jones Leslie Stoakes, New hall, Dymchurch, Kent Lord Edward esq. Langdon, Ruckinge, Ashford 162-1-; burials, 1645. The living is a rectory (with the sinecure rectories of Eastbridge Chapel and 01·garswick Tickner Thomas K. esq. Snave, Ashford and the rectory of Blackmanstone annexed), joint net Wraight Edwin T. esq. Dymchurch, Kent yearly value £234, with 27 acres of glebe and residence, Petty Sessions are held at the Court house every in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held wednesday if necessary, otherwise on first wednesday since 1906 by the Rev. Henry Lonsdale Boldero. The in every month at II a.m Wesleyan Methodist chapel here was erected in 188o. Clerk to the Justices, llarold Walker Stringer B.A. The charities derived from land left in 1~3 by Capt. solicitor, New Romney Timothy Bedingfield amount to over £2o a year. A The following places are in Romney Marsh division:­ pleasure fair is held on the Saturday in Whitsun week. A.ldington (partly), Appledore (partly), Bilsington The sea-wall, or embankment, made to resist the (partly), Blackmanstone, Bonnington, Brenzett encroachments of tL,:. sea and to defend Romney Marsh, (partly), Brookland (partly), Burmarsh, Dymchurch, is about 4 miles long, upwards of 20 feet in height and Eastbridge, Hope All Saints, Burst (partly), West of very considerable width ; and has four grand sluices Hythe, lvychurch (partly), Kenardington (partly), fol' draining the marsh ; the expense of keeping the Lympne (partly), Newington (partly), Orgarswick, embankment in repair and of drainage is defrayed by a Newchnrch, Orlestone (partly), St. Martin'&, Old scot or rate levidd on the land in the district or liberty Romney, Ruckinge (partly), St. Mary the Virgin, by the Lords of the Level of Romney Marsh. A. Snargate (partly), Snave, Warehorne (partly) Churchill esq. John Sayer esq. of Charing, Mrs. A. C. LEVEL OF ROMNEY MARSH. Smith and Mrs. Pennefather, of Green Court, New Clerk, Richard S. Jones, New hall, Dymchurch Romney, are the principal landowners. The soil is Expenditor, Frank Elliott, New hall, Dymchurch alluvial; subsoil, beach and sand. The chief crops are Bailiff, Thomas K. Tickner, Snave, Hamstreet·, Ashford wheat and grass; the area is 1,227 acres of land, 17 of Treasurer, William Francis Bond Jernmett J.P. 81 High water and 283 of foreshore; rateable value, [3,105; street, A.shford the population in rgn was 548 in the civil and 619 in Jurates, Thomas K. Tickner, Snave, Hamstreet, Ash­ the ecclesiastical parish. ford; William B. Smith, High street, New Romney; Post, M. 0. & '1'. Office, Dymchurch, Kent. Thomas A.rthur Blaxland, Kennington, Ashford; Henry J. Neil, sub-pot:~~master. Deliveries commence at 6.30 Chittenden, St. Mary's, New Romney a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at 10.50 a.m. & 8.45 p.rn.; sunday, deliveries commence at 6.30 a.m.; dis­ Coastguard, Dymchurch, Wm. Hy. Jaekson, chief officer patched at 8.45 p.m (apparatus No. 131) Wall Letter Box, High street, cleared at It.Io a.m. & Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1868, fo! 8.5o p.m. ; sundays at 8.50 p.m 175 children ; average attendance, 100 ; John Thomaa Wall Letter Box, East end, cleared at 8.50 a.m. & 6.25 Spencer Brightman, master p.m.; sundays at 7.50 p.m Omnibus&; Carrier (passes through) from New Romney Wall Letter Box, Burmarsh, cleared at 7.30 a.m. & 6.10 to Hythe, Sandgate &; Folkestone.-Carey Broth<>rs, p.m.; sundays at 7.30 a.m tues. thurs. & sat. returning sa.me days PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wooldridge Miss Frances, Wallcot Hopkins Thomas, bricklayer Balkwill Francis, Salcom be Wraight Edwin T Jones Richard S. clerk to Romney Bennett James Sterndale, Barn house Marsh Level, New hall Bnlclero Rev. HPnry Lonsdale (rector) COHMBBCU~L. King Waiter Thos. cab propr. High st Burleigh Miss, Redspire Brice A.rthur, farmer, Orgarswick Mossop Charles Henry M.R.C.S.Eng., ChecksfiPld Albert, Red house Broadley Percy, frmr. Eastbridge ho L.R.C.P.Lond. High street (attends Dering Major Sir Henry Edward bart. ButlPr A.rthur, cycle repairer mon. wed. &; fri) D.L., J.P Butler F. W. auctioneer & estate agt. Murdoch Alan M.R.C.S.Eng.,L.R.C.P. Elliott Frank, New hall High 11treet Lond. physician &; 111Ilgeon &; sur~ Facer Rev. Frank, Sycamore gardens Cooper James, chimney sweeper geon & agent to the Coast guard Gibb John Aldington Cornes Albert, dairyman (attends Tuesday), High street Hunt Misses~ Springhaven Divers John Waiter, farmer N eil Thomas, inKnr. agent, Post office Jacques Harry, Svcamore gardens Dymchurch Cricket Club (Thomas Philpott Waiter, beer retailer Jones Leslie StoakPs, New hall Neil, sec) Piddock William, farm bailiff to A.~ B. Jones Richard S. Grove house Elliott Frank, surveyor & expendito:r Wood esq. Eastbridge Chapel JonPs Stoakes Miss, Grove hou!'le to the RomneyMarshLevel,New hall Pope Robert, grocer KrabM Charles Fredk. Bridge house Ellis Frank, boot maker, High street Ralph Henrietta &; Carolina (Misses), Miller Harry, Beaver .cottae:e Gates Edward, shopkeeper dress makers Morris C. N. Sycamore gardens Gostlin~ John Joyce, farmer Ramsden Charles, cart owner Pratt Robert James, Slodden farm Hick Henry L.R.C.P.Edin. &; L.M., Rayner George Thomas, farmel! lbngland Mrs. Nonsuch, Sycamore M.R.G.S.Eng. surgeon, South view, Ripley Ernest, blacksmith gardens High st. (attends mon. wed. & fri) Simpson Georg'e, coal merchant 8t~wPll Miss. The Nest Bodgson .Tames Henry, new& agent Smith Frank, baker Stromeyer F. Chantry Hoper Charles, carman Smith Frederick, grocer Wood Mrs. Frank, Grove house Hoper Richard, ahopkeeper Spicer Edward John, Ship hotel .