Hollingbourne, Hollingbourn, Maidstone

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.


HOLLINGBOURN, a village four miles east of Maidstone station. The church of All Saints is a neat edifice. The living is a vicarage; the Rev. C. Hall, M.A., is the incumbent. The population in 1851 was 1,302. The union workhouse contains 300 inmates. Eyhorn Street is half a mile S.W.; Park Gate, one mile south; New England, one mile and a half S.W.; Woodcut Hill, two miles S.W.; Greenway, one mile S.E.

POST-OFFICE.- William Lampard, Receiver. Letters arrive from Maidstone.

Public Houses in Hollingbourne

GENTRY.

Bigsby, Rev,
Blackett, _, Esq.
Duppen, B. P., Esq.
Hall, Rev. 0., M.A.
Sedwick, Charles, Esq.
Thomas, Richard, Esq.
Watt, James, Esq.

TRADERS.