276 EGERToN. KENT. Pillar Letter Bo:1, Stonebridge Green, cleared at 8.15 for 198 children, & again in 1910, for 158 ; aveng.e­ a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 9·30 a.m attendance, 146 ; Harry Thomas Sanderson, master Pillar Letter Box, Pleasant Valley, cleared at 9· 15 a.m. County Police, .Albert William Muncey, constable & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m Carrier.-Thomas Brown, to Ashford, on tues. thnn. • Public Elementary School (mixed), under t1le control of sat. & Maidstone, mon the County Council, built in r845, enlarged in 1884, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Harrisson Annie (Miss), George P.H Pearson George, farmer, ass:il!tent Bramsdon John Stanley, Brook house, Hickman Alfred J. farmer, Court lo oversee·r & cleTk to Parish Council,. Stonebridge Green Hinds Hy. beer ret. Stonebridge Grn Bedlam Lane Handcock Mrs. Old Vicarage Homewood George, butcher Roberts Charles & John, farmers., Kortright Lawrence, Egerton Fostal Hooker Edward, agricultural machine Bedlam Lane Robinson Rev. Francis Douglas M.A. owner: hauling, thrashing & rolling Seal William, gardener to Major 0. (vicar), Vicarage machines; estimates given, Potters H. Stisted Stisted Maior Charles Harcourt, Fostal Smith Chas. butcher, Egerton Fo:~tal Hopkins Ernest, frmr. Newland green Smith George, farmer Egerton house Hopkins Joseph, farmer, Newland Gn Standen Thos. farmer, Pemble's Crosl' Kedwell Daniel, farmer, Bedlam Lane Stears William, farmer, Hollis farm. COMMERCIAL. Ledger Herbert, blacksmith Stevens Isaac, fruit grower Baldock James, wheelwright :VIillgate Herbert, farmer, Stone hill Stratton James, J_Joultry farmer Batt Lewis, farmer, Britcher farm Missing Horatio, farmer, Rock hill Stuart Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Field fm Biggs Thomas, insurance agent Moat John, blacksmith, Beulah villa Tampsett Charles, Queen's Arm• Rotting Ernest, shopkeeper Noakes Jas. Edwd. boot ma. Queen st P .H. Egerton Fostal Brown Charles,farmer, Pemble's Cross Oliver Harry, cycle agent Turk Francis, farmer, Egerton· FGstal Brown Thomas, carrier Pack & Waghorn,bldrs.Pleasant valley Turk John, watch ma. Egerton Fostal' Burden David, farmer, Wanden Pack Jeffery, builder Turk Richard, farmer,Egerton Postal Chantler W alter, farmer, Island farm Pack W illiam, farmer Waghorn Herbert, builder, see Pack Cripps F. J. farmer, Newland green Palmar Chas. farmer, Egerton Fostal & Waghorn Currah Thomas E. farmer Palmer George, farmer, Kingsden )~falter George, grocer, Post office Gore John, farmer, Egerton Fostal Palmer James, farmer, Ragged house Weeks Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer Harden Frances (Mrs.), farmer, Bar- Paterson James, farmer, Green hill Weeks Jas. grocer, Egerton Fostal ham mill Peach Robert, gamekeeper to F. S. Weeks John, farmer, Wanden Harris Albert, farmer, Pemble's C1·oss W. Cornwallis esq White Philip & Charles, fruit growr• Wood William, beer retailer ELHAM is a large parish and ancient town and head ELHAM RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. of a union and petty sessional division, on a feeder of the Stour, with a station on the Elham Valley section of The parishes in the District are the same as the Unio1r the South Eastern and Chatham railway, 70 miles from except Cheriton, Folkestone, Hythe & Sandgate. London, 8 north-west from Folkestone, and 12 from Council meets at the Workhouse, Lyminge, on every Canterbury, in the Eastern division of the county, fourth thursday at 12.30 p.m. Londingborough hundred, lathe of Shepway, Hythe Ohairman, Archibald Stoakes Jones J.P. Belmont, Staa­ county court district, rural deanery of Elham and arch­ ford, Hythe deaconry of Canterbury ; it extends from north Officials. to south about 4~ miles, from north-west to south­ Clerk, Bernard C. Drake, High street, Hythe east 5~ miles, and has within its boundary ten manors, namely: Elham, Oxroad, Boyke, Ladwood, Mount and Treasurer, Frank Scarborough, National Provincial Bank,. Bladbean, Shuttlesfield, Canterwood, Clavertigh aud Folkestone Hall. The town stands in the valley, on the west side Medical Officer of Health, M. K. Robinson M.D.Erlang.,. of the Nailbourn stream. The church of St. Mary, M.R.C.S.Eng. Sea View, Priory hill, Dover built about A.D. 1200, is of Kentish rag with flint facings, Surveyor, A. Hambrook, Lyminge in the Transition-Norman style, with later additions, Building Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Robert H'­ and has a tower, with spire, containing a clock and 8 Langhorn, Lyminge bells: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1566. The living is a vicarage, net yearly ELHAM UNION. value [,250, with residence, in the gift of the Warden Board day, alternate thurs. 10 a.m. at the WGrkhouae. and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, on the nomina­ Lyminge. tion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a\l(l held since The Union comprises the following parishes :-Acrise., rgoo by the Rev. Alard Charles de Bourbel B.D. of Cheriton, Elham, Elmsted, Folkestone, Folkestone­ Merton College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built next-Sandgate, Hawkinge, Hythe (St. Leonard), Ly· in 1839, and one for United Methodists. A cemetery of minge, Lympne, Monks-Horton, Newington, Paddles­ one acre was given by F. A. Mackinnon esq. in 1909: worth, Postling, Saltwood, Sandgate, Sellinge, Stan­ it is under the control of the Parish Council. In r8og, Lee ford, Stelling, Stelling Minnis, Stowting & Swingfield: Warley D.D. of Canterbury, presented a valuable library The population of the union in I9II was 57,274; area,. of Boo volumes, to be deposited in the church for the 43,676 acres; rateable value, Lady day, I9I3,[409•6IG use of the parishioners, and this is still maintained. The Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Archibald Stoakea town had formerly a market, granted in his father's life­ Jones J.P. Belmont, Stanford, Hytbe time, to Prince Edward, aft8l'Wards King Edward I. to Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Edgar be held weekly on Mondays. .A charity of [,2 12s. derived Lovick, 29 Bouverie square, Folkestone from a bequest of £so by Archdeacon Jonas Warley D.D. Assistant Clerk to the Guardians, John Moss, 29 Bou­ of Elham, in 1719, is distributed weekly in bread to 6 poor verie square, Folkestone widows, a.nd an annual sum Qf 2os. from the poor's land, Treasurer, Frank Scarborough, National Provincial Bank,. is distributed yearly by the Parish Council in Folkestone clothes and coals. The Working Men's Institute, Collector to the Guardians. George Cookson, Lyminge erected on land give!}; by the Rev. W. Wodehouse Vaccination Officers, 1st district, William Hy. Wilkins,. M.A. vicar I876-I9oo, ·.is governed by the Canterbury I I Bournemouth gardens, Folkestone; 2nd district, Diocesan Church Trust. In a house in the High street Charles Eccles, Sea brook road, Hythe; 3rd district, is a curious old mantelpiece, elaborately carved and George Cookson, Lyminge painted. The kennels of the East Kent Foxhounds Relieving Officers, rst district, Harry H. Hemsley, 9 St. are situated here; H. W. Selby-Lowndes esq. of Michael's street, Folkestone; 2nd & 3rd districts, Lyminge, is master; the pack bunts four times a week. George Cookson, Lymin~e Dover and Folkestone are convenient placea for hunting Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Cheriton district, visitors. The soil is chalk and clay ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley, with root@ Alfred Joseph Gore M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond. 2 Cherry in rotation. The area is 6,599 acres ; rateable value, Garden avenue, Folkestone; Elham district, John [,6,340; the population in I9II was 1,201. Jamieson Wallace M.D., L.R.C.P. & S.Edin., L.F.P.S~ Parish Clerk. George R. Thornton. Glas., D.P.H.Dub. Lyminge; Folkestone district, Wm. Peard Barrett M.R.C.S.Eng. 35 Cheriton gardens. Post & M. 0. Offict>. Edward Smith, sub-postmaster. Folkestone; Hythe district, Clifford Hackney M.R.C.S. Letters arrive from Canterbury at 7.10 a.m. & 3.50 Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Hythe; Sandgate district, John p.m. ; dispatched at ID-5 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. ; sundays, Cecil Openshaw Bradbury M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. arrive at 7.10 a.m.; dispatched at 12.50 a.m. Tele­ Lond. Sandgate; Sellinge district, Joseph Mareas­ graph office at Elham station (sunday at train time11) Garman M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Brabourne .