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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
AYLESFORD is a small town and parish in Larkfield hundred, three miles N.W. of
Maidstone, and six S.W. of Rochester. The population in 1861 was 1,487. The
church is dedicated to St. Peter, and is a handsome, edifice. The living is a
vicarage, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester ; the Rev. Edward G.
Marsh is the incumbent. Fostal is half a mile east; Preston half a mile S.W.;
Bowe Place one mile north; Kewland two miles north; Soddington one mile N.E.;
Cow Leaze half a mile N.E.; Pratling Street one mile and a half N.E.; Cussington
one mile and a half N.E.
POST-OFFICE. - Richard Cossom, Receiver. Letters arrive through Maidstone,
which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Betts, Edward Ladd, Esq., Preston Hall
Cheere, Captain John
Eldred, Mr. Edward
Marsh, Rev. Edward G., M.A., Vicar, Vicarage
Summerfield, Mrs. Charlotte E.
Public Houses in Aylesford
TRADERS.
| Aylesford Stoneware Pottery Company, William Finlay, manager Baker, Samuel J., Chequers Baker, Samuel, plumber Barnes, John W., surgeon Bateman, Joseph, grocer Bath, Stephen, George, Mill Hall Beaumont, James, hardwareman Brisley, William, farmer Brown, James, farmer Brown, Thomas, farmer Brown, Charles, farmer Broad, James, grocer Britter, Samuel, tailor Caryer, Benjamin, butcher Cole, James, farmer Cook, John, baker Corbett, Seymour, warden of Trinity Hospital Cossom, Richard, postmaster Cossom, Richard, boot and shoe maker Endfield, Thomas, Lower Bell Fisher, William, railway station master French, Henry, George Gibbs, Robert Upton, grocer Goldsmith, George, bricklayer Goddard, William, hairdresser Gorham, Ambrose, butcher |
Green, John, grocer Grid, Edward, shoemaker Groombridge, Thomas and Richard, bakers Hall, James, farmer Hawkes, William, grocer Joy, John, saddler Kemsley, James, wheelwright Lepine, James, grocer Loveland, William, shoemaker Lupton, J., cooper Marchants, Alfred P., Anchor Monaon, John Shaw, farrier Moore, William, shoemaker Page, William, sen., carpenter Perrin, Jesse, farmer Pike, Mark, shoemaker Samson, Richard, farmer Seager, Mrs. Susannah, shopkeeper Smith, John, bricklayer Streeton, William, butcher Webb, Thomas E., barge builder Webb, Thomas, barge builder Wood, Edward, farmer, Great Tollington |