Pembury, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

Public Houses in Pembury

PEMBURY, with LOWER GREEN.
Pembury is a village, five miles S.W. from Tunbridge. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and appears to be of great antiquity; it stands about one mile and a half from the village. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage and incumbency of the
Rev. George Stephen Woodgate, M.A. Here is the Tunbridge Union workhouse; and at the end of the village is a row of neat almshouses for six old persons, the gift of Charles Amherst, Esq., of Bayhall.

POST-OFFICE. - George Edward Neal, Receiver. Letters arrive from Tunbridge.

GENTRY

Anderson, James, Esq., Manor House
Anderson, T., Esq.
Bayes, J. W., Esq.
Bonner, William Price, Staptone
Cooke, Rev. George, Priory Chapel House
Dakins, Edward S., Esq.
Dickenson, Misa
Durrant, Mr., Woodgate
Finch, Captain John W., R.N.
Jackson, Mrs.
Kaye, the Misses, Spring Grove
Lempriere, Captain Henry, R.N.
Shaw, Mrs., Stantone
Shaw, Sir John 0. Kennards, Bart.
Shaw, Rev. Charles J. K., Stantone
Sperling, Henry G. W., Esq.
Wall, William Henry, Esq.
Woodgate, Rev. George Stephen, M.A.


TRADERS

Anderson, James, merchant
Ashby, Richard, miller and farmer
Baker, Daniel, shopkeeper
Baker, John, farmer
Baldwin, James, saddler
Batcheller, Thomas, farmer
Chittenden, Henry, licensed victualler
Coole, William, tailor
Cox, John, builder
Dadswell, D., hairdresser
Dakins, Edward S., surgeon
Farrance, Mrs., farmer
Fowle, Mrs. Adelaide, milliner
Fowle, John, tailor
Fry, Thomas, blacksmith
Faircloth, John, Camden Arms Inn and Posting House
Gower, Edward, carpenter and joiner
Hallett, Thomas, butcher
Hards, John, bricklayer
Homewood, Richard, carrier
Hodgkin, Jesse, builder
Martin, Mary, retailer of beer
Neal, Stephen, boot and shoe maker, post-office, stationer, and agent to the Provincial
Welsh Kre and Life Office, and the Peoples' Provident Life Assurance Society
Noakes, Robert, farmer
Norwood, John B., farmer
Lucksford, Richard, farmer
Rhodes, Edward, blacksmith
Rumens, John, shopkeeper
Stevenson, Thomas, wheelwright
Tomsett, Alfred, shopkeeper; agent to the Manchester Eire and Life Office
Veness, Benjamin, farmer
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