·KENT. HORTON KIRBY. 357 Franks: the chureh was restored in 1863 and will seat Penden and Dean Bottom are two miles north-east; sbout 270 pel'wns, 200 sittings being free. The register Mussenden and Eglantine are half a mile south; Speed­ <Jf baptisms and marriages dates from the year 1684; gate, 2 miles south-east; and South Darenth is half a burials, 1678. The living is a vicarag-e, net yearly value mile north. • £215, with 34 acres of .glebe '!lnd residence, in the gift Parish Clerk, Charles Simmons. ~I, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Henry Burme Rash- Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel leigh B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. A new burial Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, South ground of half an acre in extent, near the church, the gift Darenth.-Alfred Swaffer, sub-postmaster. Letter. ~f the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, through Dartford deliv.:lred at 7.30 a.m. & 12.10 p.m. ; <was consecrated in July, 1895. The charities for distri- di:;:patched at II a.m. & 6.55 p.m. Sunday delivery a. bution amount to about £80 yearly; of this sum 7.30 a.m.; dispatch, 10.30 a.m £34 6s. 8d. is for the general benefit of the poor of the Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, parish; £21 8s. ~d. for the education of poor children Horton Kirby. George Durling, sub-postmaster. Let- lmd £21 8s. 9d. for annuitants selected by the trustees of ters through Dartford delivered at 7.50 a.m. & 12.25 Raper s charity: Terry's charity of £2 yearly is for bread p.m.; dispatched at 10.35 a.m. & 6,30 p.m.; sunday to be given in January to such poor persons as are most delivery, 7.50 a.m.; dispatch, 10.10 a.m. The nearest regular in their attendance at church. In 1872 an Anglo- telegraph office is South Darenth, r mile distant Saxon burying ground was discovered at South Darenth, Wall Letter Box near the Forge, cleared at 10.45 a.m. &i extending for a considerable distance from the north side 6.40 p.m.; sundays 10.20 a.m <Jf the railway embankment in the direction of Darenth The Farningham Home for 300 Little Boys, was erected church. At South Darenth, near to Farningham Road from r864-78, at a cost of £23,000, for boys under the 6tation, are the extensive paper mills of Messrs..Albert age of 10, who are either homeless or in danger of Edward Reed & Co. which afford employment to a large falling into crime: the schools are regularly inspected number {)f hands in this locality. The Parish Room at by the Government as Public Elementary schools: the South Darenth, erected in 1894, at a cost, including fit- Home is divided into eleven families of 30 boys, at the tings and a residence for the teachers of £926, is used for head of each being a Christian man & his wife; boys parish meetings and entertainments, and also as an in- remain till. the age of I4~,but all over 11 are in Standard fants' school. Franks, the property and residence of IV. attending school & work alternately: attached to the 'Vavasour Earle esq. and about a mile from the village, Home is a spacious cricket f.eld and an 'Old Boys' is a fine old mansion in the Elizabethan style, erected in Lodge,' so that th0se boys who are out in situations may 1591. The Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Ox- occasionally visit their old Home: boys are received at 'ford, are the lords of the manor. The principal land- the Home either free by election, or on payment of 7s. ~wners are the trustees of the late Frederick Power esq. a week; Samuel John Stallworthy, superintendent; W. the trustees of the late Thomas Colyer Ferguson esq. of Robson esq. sec.; London offices, 70 Temple chambers, Wombwell Hall, Gravesend (d. r898) and Percy Hassell Temple avenue EC esq. of Clock House, Green Street Green, Dartford. The National School, built in 1857, for 180 children; average £oil is light loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief attendance, 146; Percy Kemp, master crops are wheat, oats, barley and beans. The area is National Infants' School, South Darenth, erected in 1894 2,833 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, for 90 children; average attendance, 84; Miss Alice £15,129; the population in 19oI was 1884. Smith, mistress HORTON KIBBY. Lewis John, Fighting Cocks P.H Busbridge Alfred, hairdresser .A.ldworth Thomas, Eglantine grange Martin Jabez & Son, farmers, Pinden Dalton George Frederick, florist Earle Vavasour, Franks Palmer Peter, farmer Dore William Macdonald, beer retailer Keath William, Ivy house Parkwood Convalescent Home (Henry Elliott Frances (Mrs.), carman Millhouse Mrs. The Mills Wingfield Cross, sec.) (postal ad- Gentry Rt. blacksmith & wheelwright R hI' h G B vill R' 1 dress, Swanley Junction S.O) Godden Charles, corn dealer as elg eo. ur e, Ise y Petty Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Green Sydney Charles, miller (steam Rashleigh Rev. Henry Burville B.A. Reeves William, dairyman &; water) & corn merchant (vicar), Vicarage . H t F d . k b k Shuter Leonard Allen, Kirby hall Thompson Arthur, beer ret8.1lel' ar er re erIC, a er Whitehorne Ernest H. Reynold's place Tyler Thos. farm bailiff to Messrs. Hortan Kirby Village Club (John Kad­ Cannon & Robe-rs, Rorton Crt. 10 will, sec) COMMERCIAL. Johnson Frederick Ernest, tailor Bean John, carman SOUTH DARENTH. King William, beer retailer Bickllell Oliver, butcher & farmer Cook Rev. John Liddiard (curate) Mace Stephen, shopkeeper IBrown William, relieving officer & Dungate Mrs. The Retreat Marchant George, greengrocer colleciAlr & school attendance & in- Green Sydney Charles, Millhouse Mullane John, butcher & grocer quiry officer, Dartford No. 3 dis- Hassell Lewis, Giffords house Penney, Son & Parker Lim. bakers &i . met, joint registrar of mar- Muggeridge Wm. Danefield villas grocers & agents ~r W. & A. Gilbey riages, Dartford union & deputy Parker Henry Edwin, 7 Viaduct cots Limited, wine & spirit merchants registrar of births & deaths & vac- Saunders Thomas, Riverside house Reed Albert Edwd. & Co. paper manu- cination officer Farningham sub-dis- Simpson William Harness, The Cot facturers, Rorton Kirby mills trict, Dartford union Smith Henry, Holmesdale Russell Mary (Mrs.), butcher Crowhurst Arthur Samuel, farmer Spalding Sidney Thomas, Avenue ho South Darenth Co-operative Society Dolden John, shopkeeper Stallworthy Samuel John Limited Durling George, baker, Post office COMMERCIAL. Swaffer Alfred, shopkeeper, Post off Farningham Home for Little Boys Acton Thomas, carpenter Vickery Frederick, shopkeeper (W. Robson, sec.; Saml. John Stall- Adams Thomas, Jolly Millers P.H Wells George, boot maker . worthy, supt) Boyce Eliza (Mrs.), registrar of births Whiffin Benjamin Thomas, farmer Fennel' Ebenezer David, drpr. & grocr & deaths for the sub-district of Wood Edward, baker Hall Thoma~, blacksmith Farningham Woolnough James, draper & grocer HOTHFIELD i!l a parish and village, on the high road in 1624, was restored in 1876. The register dates from from Ashford to Maidstone, with a station on the Maid- the year 1570. The living is a rectory, net yearly value iltone and Ashford branch of the South Eastern and Chat- £260, with 28 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift llam railway, 3 miles north-west from Ashford, 57 by rail of Lord Hothfield, and held since April, 1894, by the and 50 by road from London; the river Stour runs along Rev. Harry Wright Russell B.A. of the University of the south side of the parish, which is in the Southern London. Various legacies, amounting altogether to about division of the county, Chart and Longbridge hundreds, £80 yearly, have been left to the poor of this parish 1athe of Scray, Ashford petty sessional division and county by the Tufton family. There is a common of about 250 ~ourt district, West Ashford union, and in the rural acres, partly in this parish, but extending into the ad­ deanery of East 'Oharing, archdeaconry of Maidstone and joining parish of Westwell. Hothfield Place, the ancient ~ocese of Canterbury. This place, since 1881, has given seat of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet, and the residence of "the title of baron to the Tufton family, baronets; and Lord Hothfield D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor and previously Barons Tufton (1626) and Earls of Thanet principal landowner, is a large mansion of stone sur· (1628), but the latter title became extinct on the deat. rounded with 350 acres of park land, commanding lovely of Henry, I1th earl, in 1849. The church of St. Mary views; the river Stour flows through the park, and sup­ is of stone in various styles, the Norman, Early English, plies a small lake. The soil is light; subsoil, loamy. Decorated and Late Perpendicular being all represented, The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. The snd has a tower with spire containing 5 bells: there is a area is 1,815 acres of land and 14 of water; rateable value, t!ltained window and monuments with figures and various £4,532; the population in 1901 was 328. tablets to the Tufton family and others: the church, Parish Clerk, George Brissenden. partly burQ,t at the end of the r6th century, and rebuilt Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T, M. 0., Express Delivery, Farcet.