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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

GRINSTEAD GKEEN.

GENTRY.
Dunmul, Miss Sophia, Oak House
Fox, Mr. John Woodhams
Fox, Mr. Thomas Samuel
Ray, Miss Elizabeth, Oak House


TRADERS.
Adams, George, shopkeeper
Arrow, Mrs. Elizabeth, Rose and Crown
Arrow, John, carpenter
Denton, John, blacksmith
Fishenden, Thomas, Queen's Head
Fox and Sons,'brewers and maltsters
Isard, Richard, farm bailiff
Jackson, Charles, shopkeeper
Porter, Daniel, boot and shoe maker
Ricketts, Miss M. A., national schoolmistress
Stow, T. B., farmer, Clielsfield Hall
Whiffin, Peter, wheelwright
Williams, Francis, farmer

LOCK'S BOTTOM.
Bedford, Lieutenant Frederick | Dresser, Henry, Esq.

TRADERS.
Barham, Stephen, White Lion Inn
Berridge, Miss Maria, schoolmistress of union
Berridge, Samuel, schoolmaster of union
Clements, James, blacksmith
Griffin, William, sen., fruiterer
Higham, C. R., master of union
Higham, Mrs. Sarah, mistress of union
King, William, sergeant of police
Lamb, Mrs. Ann, beer retailer
Ringer, Mrs. Elizabeth, beer retailer
Wheatherly, Richard, shoemaker
Webb, Valentine, grocer