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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
HARTLIP, a village half a mile south of Watling Street, eight miles from
Maidstone, and five from Sittingbourne, west. The population in 1851 was 843.
The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester;
the Rev. William Fisher, M.A., is the incumbent. Yaugher is half a mile west,
and Mears one mile west.
POST-OFFICE - Edmunds, Stephens, Receiver, letters are received through
Sittingbourne, which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Bland, William, Esq., J.P., Hartlip place
Drawbridge, Miss Ann Sarah
Drawbridge, Miss Kitty Elizabeth
Fisher, Rev. William, M.A., Vicarage
TRADERS.
Andrews, John B., farmer
Cheeseman, Jesse, shoemaker
Flint, Lewis, Eagle
Friday, William, miller
Goord, Richard, farmer
Hales, James, grocer
Hollands, William, farmer
Kitchingham, John, shoemaker
Maddocks, William, butcher
Webb, George, farmer
Wyles, Thomas, wheelwright