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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
FARNBOROUGH is an extensive parish and village, with the hamlets of Grinstead
Green and Lock's Bottom, with a population of about 920 inhabitants. It lies on
the road from London to Sevenoaks, four miles from Bromley, and 14 from London;
is in the lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, Ruxley hundred, West Kent. The church of St.
Giles is an old building of flint and brick. The living is a chapelry, annexed
to the adjoining parish of Chelsfield; the Rev. Follett Baugh, M.A., rector of
Ohelsfield, incumbent.
Grinstead Green, or Greenstreet Green, is a hamlet partly in this parish and
partly in Chelsfield, one mile south-by-east from Farnborough. Lock's Bottom is
another hamlet in the parish of Farnborough, from which village it is three
quarters of a mile north-by-west. The Bromley union workhouse is situated here,
and will hold 200 inmates; also the police station.
POST-OFFICE. - Robert Sessions, Receiver. New Inn Letters arrive from Bromley,
which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
Public Houses in Farnborough
GENTRY
Fowler, Mr. John
Smith, Rev. Rowland, M.A,, Curate
TRADERS
| Bird, Edward, grocer Davis, James, harness maker Eagleton, John, seedsman Fowler, John, surgeon Gearing, Joseph, blacksmith Giles, Thomas, market gardener Havill, Thomas, George and Dragon Commercial Inn Head, Miss Harriet, infant schoolmistress Kidman, William, butcher |
Ladd, George, baker Nash, John, boot and shoe maker Roberts, Silas, grocer Sawyer, William, beer retailer Sessions, Robert, New Inn, and post-office Stow, William, farmer Stow, Thomas, fruiterer Whiffin, Henry, farmer Woolsey, William, tailor |