DlRECTOitY .J SURREY. EAST MOLESEY. 315 EAST MOLESEY (or Moulsey).-The 1\loleseys, named mortuary chapel; it is under the control of the council acting in Domesday Book, derive their name from the river as a burial board. The Conservative Hall, in Walton road. Mole, which runs through the parishes, and falls intD the a. building of galvanized iron, was erected in 1888 and will Thames at EMt Molesey. Ea<!t Molesey is a. rapidly increas- hold 400, and is- used for concerts and meetings. The Con­ ing village, situated opposite Hampton Court, on the south ~ervative Club adjoining it has billiard, reading and refresh­ side of the Thames, which for many years was crossed at this ment rooms. The St. Andrew's Hall, a. large building of point by a wooden bridge; but an iron bridge was constructed red brick, in St. Mary's road, was erected in 1900. The bank and opened in 1865 on the same site ; it is in the Mid division of Barclay & Company Limited (formerly Thomas Ashby of the county, Elmbridge hundred, Kingston petty sessional & Co.) in Wolsey road, was erected in 1889. The London & division, union and county court district, within the juris- South Western Bank Limited also has a branch in Bridge road. diction of the Metropolitan police, and in the rural deanery The drinking fountain in Bridge road, a structure of granite, of Emly, archdeaconry of Surrey and diocese of Winchester. was erected in 1887 in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her The Hampton Court station, a terminus of a branch of the late MajMty Queen Victoria. The Hurst Park racecourse London and South WMtern railway, is in this village, which is is partly in this parish. There are locks here on the river 13 miles by road and 15 by rail and 23! by water from London Thames above Hampton Court bridge, which are 88! miles . and 2 south-west from Kingston-on-Thames. Under the from Oxford. An amateur regatta is held here annually provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 in July. The Cottage Hospital, in Pemberton road, estab­ Vict. c. 73), the parishes of East and West :M:olMey are aow lished in 1890 by the Dowager Lady Barrow, has six beds, and governed by an Urban District Council of 18 members, formed since 1892 has been managed by a committee. The East in 1894, in place of the former Local Board, established in and West Molesey and Hampton Court Cottage Hospital, in 1867, for Ea.st :M:olesey. Gas is supplied by the Hampton Pemberton road, was established in 1890 and contains six Court &as Company, from works at Hampton Wick, the beds. The charitieR amount to £20 yearly. Henry VIII. electric light by the Twickenham & Teddington Electric exchanged the monasteries of Calwich, in Staffordshire, and Supply Co. Limited and water by the Metropolita'l Water Merton. Surrey, for the manor of East Molesey. The trll8tees Board; a new system of drainage, including a sewage farm, of the late Capt. H. E. Hotham and the Earl of Berkeley are baa been carried out since 1894. The old church of St. Mary, lords of the manors of Moul<ley Matham and Moulsey Prior, having been considerably damaged by fire in 1863, was which extend to Thames Ditton, West Molest>y, Hersham, entirely rebuilt in 1864-5 on the old site; in 1883 a north Esher and Claygate. The lords of the manors and the trustees aisle was erected, and in 1884 a south aisle and north porch of the late F. J. Kent esq. are the chief landowners. The · were added: it is now in the Early English style, and ha<! a soil is light loam; subsoil, gravel. The arf'-& is 743 acres tower with spire containing a clock and 8 bells, hung in 1890, of land and 38 of water; rateable value, £48,806 ; the and including the three old bells and a set of Cambridge population in 1911 was 5,313 in the civil and 3.158 in the chimes : there are eight stained windows and a brass to ecclesiastical parish. "Anthonie Standen, cup-bearer to the King of Scotland, some Parish Clerk and Verger, St. Mary's, William Henry Shorter. tyme Lord Darnlt>y, father to King James I. of England": ,there are 492 sittings. The first entry existing in the parish KENT TOWN was constituted an ecclesiastical district, 28 register dates from 1668; previous entries having either been Nov. 1856; the church of St. Paul is of stone, in the Perpen­ lost or destroyed. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value dicular style, and haa a tower with spire, completed in 1888, £200, with rMidence, in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester, at a cost of £2,000, and containing one bell : there are and held since 1910 by the Rev. Edward Garth Ireland. The several stained windows and 500 sittings, upwards of 60 Wesleyan chapel, in Manor road, was erected in 1876 and will being free. The register dates from the year 1856. The seat 350 persons. The Baptist chapel, in Walton road, erected living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, chiefly derived in 1897, is of corrugated iron and will seat 250. The Roman from pew rents, with glehe (£60) and residence, in the gift of Catholic Church of St. Barnabas, in Vine road, erected in the t-rustees of the late Frands Jackson Kent esq. and held 1906, is also an iron structure. The cemetery at West Mole- since 1910 by the Rev. Cyril Paul Johnson M.A. of Trinity sey, for'!l('d in 1866, contains about four acres and has one , College, Toronto. The population in 1911 was 2,155. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, I.OCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic E. D. Office, Bridge road. Retire in April, 1916: (Letters should have Surrey added.)-Fred Evans, sub- Edward Pritchard Thomas Jos3ph Watkins postmaster. Letters from London direct & are delivered 1 • at 7 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; also by mail cart from K.ingston-on- Offimals. Thames & are delivered at 7 & 9.45 a. m. & 2.35 & 6.35 p.m. ; Clerk, Daniel C~tnn, Cou:1cil offices, St. :Mary's roa1 dispatched at 9 & 11.50 a.m. & 4, 6, 7.2.5 & 10 p.m.; sundays, Treasurer, John Ashby, bctnker, Barclay's Bank, Wolsey road delivered at 7.45 a.m.; dispatched at 5.50 p.m. The Medical Officer of Health, John Edmund Knox M.B., o.M. office is open week days 8 a. m. to 8 p.m. Telegraph office The Hollies, Palace road open on sundays from 8.30 to 10 a. m Sanitary Inspector, "\Vilfred Parker, Feltha.m avenue Town Sub-Post, M. 0. & Telephone Call Office, W alton Surveyor, John Stevenson M.I.A.M. & c. E., M.R. san. I.Seymour rd road.-Victor Stevens, sub-postmaster. Letters collected Collector, East & West Molesey, J. G. Condell, Council offices, 8.30 & 11.30 a.m. & 3.10, 6.10 & 8.30 p.m. ; sundays, I St. Mary's road 4.50 p.m. Molesey Park, quarter mile distant, is the nearest telegraph office PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Post & M. 0. Office, Molesey Park.-William Henry Plaisted Cemetery, Daniel Cann, St. l\'lary's road, clerk to the Council Kent, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from East Molesey acting as the burial beard . & are dispatched at 8.25 & 11.45 a.m. & 4, 6.15 & 8.35 p.m.; EMt & West Molesey & Hampton Court Cottage Hospitnl sundays, 5 p.m. Telegrams are dispatched only from this (H. 1\L Holbcrton M.D., M.R.c.s.Eng., D.P.H.R.C.P.LOnd. J. E. office. East Molesey, one mile distant, is the nearest Knox M.B., c.M.Edin. L. Falkener M.A., M.D., B.o.camb., telegraph office for delivery M.R.c.s.Eng., D.P.H.R.C.P.s.LOnd. T. Compton M.R.o.s. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. & J. T. B. P. Chipperfield L.R.C.P.Edin., EART & WEST MOLESEY URBAN DISTHICT COU~C1L. M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officers; F. S. Fletcher, sec. ; Miss Offices, St. Mary's road. F. R. Pitt, matron), Pemberton road ::\Ieeting clay, first tuesday in the month. Metropolitan Police Station (V Division), corner of Walton & Bridge roads; James Whitmore in charge, 5 sergeants, Members. 2 acting sergeants & 24 constables Chairman, James Ray. Royal Human!:' Society Station, drags, life buoys & other EAST MOLESEY. apparatus are kept here for the use of the public Volunteer Fire Rrigade Station, W alton road, Henry Francis Retire in April, 1914. Augustus Roche, captain & 16 men Gevrge A:J.erton John Machell Benjamin Bonar Charles Winter PUBLIC OFFICERS. Ret1re in April, 1915. Clerk to East Molesey Sub-Committee of Surrey Local Pension Jack Aldous Walter Thos. Chambers Committee, Daniel Cann, Council offices, St. Mary's road Joseph &. Armes Harry Wheatley M!'dica1 Officer & Public Vaccinator, East & W Mt Molesev• I District, Kingston Union, John Edmund Knox M.B., C.M. Retire in April, HH6. Edin. The Hollies, Palace road Alfred BarJ I James Ray Registrar of Births & Deaths, Esher Sub-Di'ltrict, Charles P. Henry Jesse Gooch Francis J. Sheph~rd Storey, The Haven, Summer road WEST MOLESEY. PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Retire in April. 1914. The two first-named Srhools are controlled bv a board of J.\mes Emrchier I Alfred George Jury • twelYe managers, eight voluntary & four appointed by the- Retire in April, 1915. County Council & Urban District Council; H. E. Weston.