Elham, East Ashford, Ashford with Shepway

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

ELHAM or Eleham, is a parish in Longborough hundred, and lathe of Shepway, twelve miles south of Canterbury. This place was formerly a market town. The population in 1851 was 1,207. The church is a fine edifice in the early English style. The living is a vicarage in the gift of Merton College, Oxford. Rev. W. Wodehouse, vicar.
Standen Hill is one mile east; Ladwood, Winterdown, Oad and Blandred, two miles east; Wick, one mile S.E.; Shuttlefield or Shettlefield, two miles south; Ottinge, one mile and a half S.W.; Rhoads, Minnis, Monkgate, and Mapheggar, two miles west;
Axted, half a mile west; Parkgate, three quarters of a mile N.W.; Greenacre, one mile and a half north; Bevans Green, two miles and a half north; Bladbean or Bladbin, two miles north; Wingmore, two miles and a half north; White-horse and Red-hook, three miles north; Lodge Lee, two miles north; Windgate and Rake's Hole, two miles N.E.

POST-OFFICE - Richard Keeler, Receiver. The nearest Money Order Office is at Folkstone and Canterbury.

Public Houses in Elham

GENTRY.
Beattie, James, Esq.
Dale, Mr. William
Keeler, John Mr.
Wodehouse, Rev. Walker, M.A., Vicar
Woollett, Mrs.

TRADERS.