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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

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