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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
IGHTHAM is a village and parish, six miles N.E. from Sevenoaks, and two miles
and a half S.W. from Wrotham. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and is an
ancient edifice. The living is a rectory; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Roger
Bird, M.A. The population in 1851 was 1,121.
There is also a Wesleyan chapel here. Borough Green is three quarters of a mile
N.E.; Bastead, one mile S.E. ; Ivy Hatch, one mile and a half south ; Mote, two
miles south; Wimlet Hill, two miles south; Crown Point, one mile and a half
S.W.; Oldbury, half a mile west. Redwell and Preston, are other places.
POST-OPFICE - William Hackett, Receiver. Letters received through Wrotham, br />
which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
Public Houses in Ightam
GENTRY.
Barrow, Captain Thomas William, Oldbury Lodge
Bird, Rev. Roger, M.A., Rectory
Gregory, Mrs. Caroline, Court Lodge
Larkin, Miss Fanny, Preston House
Laurd, Captain Robert, Mote House
Pavton, Henry, Esq.
Selby, William, Esq.
Smart, James, Esq.
Public Houses in Ightam
TRADERS.
| Bassett, Benjamin, farmer Bassett, John, bootmaker Bassett, John, carrier Bassett, James, farmer Bassett, Thomas, farmer Batt and Martin, shopkeepers Booth, Samuel, plumber and glazier Charlton, Thomas, farmer Children, George, fruit grower Crawson, Thomas, beer retailer Crispe, _, draper and grocer Dadswell, Edward, beer retailer Dye, William, farmer Foreman, William, veterinary surgeon Guasson, Thomas, ironmonger, etc. Gasson, Thomas, George and Dragon Gibbon, Edward, farmer Harrison, Benjamin, draper, etc. Harrison, Thomas, farmer How, John, boot and shoe maker Isted, William, beer retailer Lakin, Thomas, Plough Leonard, William, builder Luck, Richard, Chequers Morgan, William, butcher Morris, Thomas, farmer |
Moyce, Miss Sarah, butcher Nash, Thomas, Crown Prentice, George, farmer Ridley, Mrs., fishmonger Romeieu, Charles, farmer Saxby, James, Crown Point Selby, William, farmer Smith, William, farmer Sopwith, Frederick, surgeon Spencer, Thomas Cooper, farmer Stephens, Alexander, Red Lion Summers, George, farmer Summers, John, farmer Taylor, Thomas, farmer Tires, John, fruit grower Usherwood, Robert, fruit grower Usherwood, John, farmer Usherwood, James, farmer Usherwood, John, wheelwright Usherwood, Mrs. S., straw bonnet maker Usherwood, Thomas, harness maker Walter and Chatfield, tailors Webb, John, parish clerk Williams, George, baker and grocer Wright, Mrs. Elizabeth, fruit grower Wright, George, carpenter and beer retailer |