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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

LOOSE is a pleasant village and parish, two miles and a half south, of Maidstone. The population in 1851 was 1,542. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a very small building. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Rev. Richard Boys, M.A., is the incumbent. Well Street is a part of the village. Boughton Mount is half a mile north; Cripple Street, half a mile N.E.; Salt's Place, half a mile S.E.; Hail, or Hayle, one mile and a half north; Sharnal Pond, one mile N.E.; Penn's Court, half a mile N.W,

POST-OFFICE - William Wells, Receiver. Letters arrive through taplehurst. The nearest Money Order Office is at Linton.

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