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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
BIDDENDEN is a village and parish, four miles from Headcorn station, 29 miles
from Canterbury, and five miles from Tenterden. The population in 1851 was
1,457. The living is a rectory, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury ;
the Rev. James Boys, M.A., is the incumbent. The church is a fine edifice, of
the later English style of architecture.
POST-OFFICE - Miss Elizabeth Tolhurst, Receiver. Letters arrive from Cranbrook,
which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Beale, John, Esq.
Beale", Mrs. Mary
Beale, Richard, jun., Esq., River Hall
Beale, George, Esq.
Boys, Rev. James, M.A., Rectory
Buckenham, Rev. J. R. Curate
Patterson, Colonel Cook T., Ibornden Park
Patterson, Captain W. H. T.
Public Houses in Biddenden
TRADERS.
| Allen, George, miller Allen, J. B., surveyor Banfleld, Thomas, Chequers Barton, Edward, Red Lion Bourn, Robert and John, blacksmiths Body, Richard, beer retailer Boorman, John, farmer Bourne, James, shopkeeper Buckland, James, farmer Buckland, John, Newcastle House Buckland, Walter J, grocer and draper Burden, Thomas, farmer Chambers, Abraham, bricklayer Colebrook, Edward, wheelwright Colebrook, Charles, farmer Coleman, David and Edward, carpenters Crampton, John, saddler Crampton, William, Munk's Hill Day, Richard, farmer Daynes, G. T., farmer Dean, Edward, blacksmith Dean, John, butcher Dean, William, farmer Dungey, John, miller; Elmstone, Richard, beer retailer Farris, Abraham, carpenter Hague, Jenkin, sen., grazier Hague, Jenkin, farmer Harris, Mrs. Elizabeth, beer retailer Homewood, Thomas, farmer |
Homewood, William, farmer Hicks, John, farmer, Duesden Humphrey, Charles, grocer Jezzard, J, surgeon Levett, Hannah, Kings Head Moore, James, farmer Morris, John, parish clerk Newman, John, farmer, Lashenden Oliver, Henry, farmer Pearson, James, farmer Perter, William, plumber and glazier Rice, John Lake, farmer Sanders, Job, miller Sayer, Thomas, baker Sharp, William, gun maker Smith, Edward, glover Springett, Robert, farmer Thurston, James, wheelwright Wells, Alfred, tailor Wenham, John, beer retailer Weston, Shadrach, farmer Whibley, David, bootmaker Witherden, Joseph, jun., farmer Witherden, Lydia, farmer Witherden, Carey, farmer Witherden, George, butcher Witherden, George, farmer Witherden, Joseph, farmer Witherden, John, farmer |