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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Lynsted public houses
LINSTEAD or LYNSTEAD is a large village three miles S.E. of Sittingbourne, and
five miles west of Faversham. In 1851 the population was 1,806. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the
Archdeacon of Canterbury; the Rev. John Hamilton, M.A., Vicar. Green Street, one
mile and a half north; Scuttington or Scuddington is half a mile west; Wood
Street, half a mile north ;
Bogle, half a mile N.E.; Dedman or Dadman is three quarters of a mile south.
POST-OFFICE - William Henry Fairbeard, Post-Master. The nearest Money
Order Office is at Sittingbourne.
GENTRY.
Church, Mr. James, Green Street
Fairman, Samuel Creed, Esq., MillersHouse
Hamilton, Rev. John, M.A.
Leese, Mr. Edward
Tyler, Colonel C. H., Linsted Lodge
Rees, Rev. _ M.A., Green Street
TRADERS.
| Back, Stephen, Parish Clerk, Street Baker, H., grocer, &c., Street Barling, G. N., and Philip, farmers, Nowdes Blaxlahd, Edward, farmer, Dedman Booman, Thomas, butcher, Green Street Busbridge, Mrs. Jane, smith and farrier Champion, William H,, miller, Steam Mill Church, James, surgeon, Green Street Eley, Thomas, farmer, Ten Acre Elvy, Thomas, Fox and Hounds Fairbeard, William H., Dover Castle, and posting house, Post-office Receiver, Green Street Fairbeard, William H., and Julius, florists, nurserymen, and seedsmen, Green Street George, Frederick, tailor, Green Street Homer, Mrs., Swan Inn Honey, Robert, coal merchant and carman Kemp, Henry, boot and shoe maker, Green Street Kemp, William, saddle and harness maker, Green Street Killick, John, grocer, &c., china and earthenware dealer, Green Street Kimmins, Mrs. Eliz., baker, Green Street |
King Thomas, carman, Green Street Street Lake, Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer, Wood Street Mannoch, John, builder, Green Street Matthews, Thomas, farmer Maytum, Henry (George), and bricklayer, Green Street Moss, Edward, horse dealer, Little Noakes Murton, Charles, farmer, Cambridge Parham, John, boot and shoe maker, Bogle Ray, Edward, surgeon, Greenshal Silver, Henry, smith and farrier, Green Street Smith, John, grocer and wheelwright Strouts, Edward and Co., millers, Union Mill Strouts, John, farmer Vallance, William Charles, builder, Green Vallance, William, fruiterer, Bogle Wanstall, Thomas, farmer, Green Street Watts, James, tin-plate worker, Green Street Wilkins, William, butcher, Green Street Wood, George Robert, Black Lion, Street |