Kent Villages, Towns & Public Houses - History, Genealogy & Trade Directories
Kent Villages Home Page | Kent Districts & Kent Lathes |Kent Villages and Towns A - Z
Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Public Houses in Horton Kirby & South Darenth
HORTON KIRBY is a parish and village, four miles from Dartford, and 10 from
Sevenoaks. The population in 1851 was 747. The church is a very ancient edifice.
The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the family of the present vicar,
who is the Rev. George Rashleigh, M.A. South Darenth is partly in this parish.
POST-OFFICE, William Bell, Receiver, letters are received through Dartford,
which
is also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Cresy, Edward, Esq.
Hall, Henry, Esq.
Muggeridge, William, Esq.
Muggeridge, George, Esq.,
Nicholson Mrs.
Rashleigh, Rev. George, M.A., Vicar
Rashleigh, Rev. Henry B., B.A., Curate
Rashleigh, Miss, Kirby Hall
Russell, James, Esq.
TRADERS.
| Ashdown, William, shopkeeper Bell, William, gardener and Post office Bicknell, Mark, shopkeeper Dolding, John, tanner, &c. Dungate, John, parish clerk Dungate, Mrs., day school Elliott, Thomas, farmer Evered, George, shopkeeper Hall, Henry, paper manufacturer Hall, James, farmer Hall, John, blacksmith Hall, William, veterinary surgeon Martin, William, bricklayer |
Mitchell, Stephen, beer retailer Muggeridge, George, farmer Muggeridge, William, farmer Parsons, Mrs. Elizabeth, carrier Plumbe, George, Fighting Cock Ray, George and James, farmers Ray, Frederick Martin and Frank, farmers Russell, John, farmer Slater, Francis, solicitor Thorp, Richard, farmer Treadwell, James, Jolly Millers Wells, John, boot and shoe maker |