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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
CRANBROOK is a market town and large parish, distant 48 miles from London, 14
miles from Maidstone, and six miles from Staplehurst railway station. It is in
the lathe of Scray, and hundred and union of CranbrooL The population of the
town in 1861 was 1,653, and of the whole parish, 4,029. Formerly, there was an
extensive manufactory of broadcloth, established by the Flemings in 1337. St
Dunstan's church is a large and handsome edifice, in the perpendicular style,
with a square tower
containing a peal of eight bells. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of
the
Archbishop of Canterbury. There are also seven places of worship for dissenters.
Milkhouse Str5eet is a hamlet, one mile and a half N.E. from Cranbrook. The
church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a neat edifice, built of stone. The
living is a perpetual curacy. Angley is half a mile west; Glapenbury, two miles
west; Sissinghurst, three miles N.E.; Hartley, half a mile S.W. POST-OFFICE. -
Richard Booy, Postmaster. Letters dispatched at 10 P.M. Money Orders granted and
paid.
Cranbrook Traders in 1858
Cranbrook Public Houses
GENTRY.
| Allan, Rev. John Lloyd, B.A., School House Amos, Rev. George, High street Badock, Mr. Thomas, High street Balderston, the Misses, High street Barrow, Rev, Francis, Vicar and Magistrate, the Vicarage Beeman, Rev. Thomas O., High street Bennett, Rev. Henry, B.A., Curate, West End Blackwell, Thomas Seal, Esq., Beam's Villa Burch, Rev. William, High street Butler, Mrs. Thomas, Hill House Cleaver, Mrs., Sissinghurst Couchman, William, Esq., Stone street Davies, the Misses, High street De Spaen, Lady Louisa, Sissinghurst Castle Ditch, Mr. Thomas, High street Dunb.il], Charles Henry, Esq., Shepherds Eddy, Mrs., Waterloo place Farrar, Henry J., Esq. Finnemore, Mr. William, High street Franklin, William, Esq., High street Gray, Captain Richard, R.N., Whitewell Greenall, the Misses, Waterloo place Hague, William, Esq. |
Harford, Mrs., High street Jobson, John, M.D., Brooksden Kemp, Mr. Thomas, High street Levett, Mrs. T., Baker's Cross Menpes, Mrs. R., High street Miller, Miss Ann, Waterloo place Muddle, Mr. Samuel, High street Neve, William Tanner, Esq., Osborne Lodge Parsons, John M., Esq., Angley House Pawson, Rev. Henry Thomas, Baptist minister, Bridge buildings Peterson, Rev. William, Sissinghurst Ranger, Frederick, Esq., High street Roberts, Thomas W. Esq., Glassenbury House Slee, Mrs. S., Waterloo road Spalding, Mrs. Mary Ann, Camden Cottage Stable, Daniel, Esq., Hazelden House Titford, Richard V., Esq., Manor Cottage Toomer, Mr. William, High street Tooth, Robert, Esq., Swifts Troughton, Ellis, John, Esq., High street Webster, Thomas, R. A., Cranbrook, and the Mall, Kensington Williams, Charles, Esq., West End Willis, the Misses, High street Wilson, John Elliott, Esq., Sissinghurst House Winch, Mrs. Ann, High street |
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