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Public Houses in Alkham
Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
ALKHAM is in Dover union, Folkestone hundred, lathe of Shepway, East
Kent, five miles north of Folkestone, and west of Dover, and 87 miles from
London. The population in 1851 was 494. The church of St. Anthony
the Martyr is a handsome building. The living is a vicarage, with the
chapel of Capel le'Fearne annexed, is in the gift of the Archbishop of
Canterbury.
The Rev. James Eveleigh is the incumbent.
GENTRY.
Banks, John, Esq.
Eveleigh, Rev. James, M.A., Vicar
Latham, Rev. Samuel, Curate
Lidbetter, Mr. Joseph
Smith, Thomas, Esq.
TRADERS.
Austen, George, farmer
Austen, Richard, schoolmaster
Bourne, Thomas, beer retailer
Claringbould, Israel, farmer
Collard, Ambrose, grazier
Collard, Richard, Marquis of Granby
Collard, William, farmer
Collier. George, farmer, Drillingore
Dale, Stephen, farmer
Davison, William, farmer
Finch, William, farmer
Finch, William, Jun., farmer
Gambrill, Valentine, farmer
Gates, George, farmer
Hedgecock, Stephen, blacksmith
Hogben, William, boot maker
Horton, John, grocer
Kitham, Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer
Knocker, George W, paper maker
Marsh, John jun, maltster
Matcham, Thomas, farmer
Palmer, William, beer retailer
Sharp, John, farmer
Smith, John, farmer
Smith, Richard, farmer
Smith, Simon, farmer
Tunbridge, Thomas, beer retailer
Tunbridge, Thomas, grocer and carpenter
White, John, blacksmith