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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
KINGSNORTH is a parish and small village two miles and a half south.
of Ashford. The church of St. Michael is small and ancient. The living is
a rectory in the gift of John Alleston, Esq., the Rev. Richard Baldock is the
incumbent. The population in 1851 was 424. Snell Hatch is half a mile
S.W.; Park House, half a mile N.; West Hawk, half a mile N.W.; Beaver,
one mile and a half north; Billham, one mile east; Cheeseman's Green,
Collier's Hill, Sill. Broad Oak, and Chequer Tree, two miles S.E,; Mountford,
Mountfilde, or Munford, half a mile south,
was a seat of the Woodchurch Clarkes in the middle ages. To the north of the
parish is Marshland, and to the south Woodland.
Post Office - William Theobald, Receiver, The nearest Money Order Office is at
Ashford.
Baldock, Rev. Richard, M.A., Rectory
TRADERS.
| Back, George, farmer Barton, John, farmer Barton, Richard, grazier Bean, William, grazier Bingham, James, fanner Bingham, John blacksmith Bingham, William, shopkeeper Bishop, Stephen, farmer Budd, Alfred, grazier Dray, William, farmer Epps, John, farmer Fukes, John, miller Greenhill, Edward, farmer Haldem, Frank, farmer Harnden, George, bricklayer Haines, William, carrier Hart, William, farmer |
Lawrence, William, farmer Mapleston, George, wheelwright Mills, Samuel, grazier Moore, Daniel, grazier Penticost, William and Richard, farmers Plowman, William, farmer Scott, William, farmer Slingsby, Stephen, poulterer Stace, Stephen, grazier Swaffer, Daniel, farmer Swaffer, Daniel George, farmer Theobald, William, Queen's Head, and grazier Theobald, Charles, carpenter Theobald, Thomas grocer Venner, William, bootmaker Woshford, Jeremiah, farrier and farmer |