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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

MINSTER is a large village and railway station, four miles west from Ramsgate, 12 N.E. from Canterbury, eight S.E. from Margate, and 26 from Ashford. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building in good repair. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rev. Robert Thomas Wheeler, M.A. is the incumbent. There is also a Wesleyan Chapel here. The population in 1851 was 1,532. Dorlock is one mile S.E.; Wey, one mile N.E.; Hailing Court, two miles N.E.

POST-OFFICE. - Edward May, Receiver.

GENTRY.
Gillow, Mrs. Ann, Wayborough
Hasler, Mr. William
Swinford, John, Esq.,the Abbey
Wheeler, Rev. Robert Thomas, M.A., Incumbent

Public Houses in Minster

TRADERS.

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