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Doddington, Faversham, Canterbury with Swale

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

DODDINGTON is a village six miles south of Sittingbourne, six S.W. of Faversham, and eight N.W. from Chilham station in Faversham union, lathe of Scray, East Kent. The church of St. John is an old building. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the Archdeacon of Canterbury. The Rev. J. Horden is the vicar. The population in 1851 was 489. Down Court is half a mile N.W.; Higham, one mile N.W.; Seeds Pond, three cmartera of a mile S.E.; Little Sharsted, one mile and a half north.

POST - OFFICE. - Henry jarvis, Receiver. The nearest Money Order Offices are at Sittingbourne and Faversham.

GENTRY.
Horden, Rev. James, Vicar
Faunce, Captain Robert, Great Sharsted
Muddle, Mr. John, Saltmarsh

TRADERS.
Acress, Charles, bailiff
Benstead, John, smith and farrier
Bing, Thomas, farmer. Church hill
Brenchley, William, farmer, Gritt farm
Clifford, William, farmer, Court Lodge
Foster, George, parish clerk
Griggs, Richard, academy
Hambrook, Thomas, farmer
Hammond, Charles, grocer
Jarvis, Henry, post master, grocer, and draper
Johnson, Gohle, high constable of the lower half hundred of Teynham, and gardener
Lewis, Charles, boot and shoe maker
Mexted, Thomas, bricklayer
Monk, Thomas, butcher
Norrington, Henry, farmer, Lenham hill
Pain, Henry, boot and shoe maker
Palmer, John Henry, Chequers
Parker, Henry, harness maker
Sellen, Richard, baker

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