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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
PRESTON is a parish on the high road from Grove Ferry to Wingham, six and a half
miles N.W. of Sandwich, and nine N.E. of Canterbury. The population in 1851 was
542. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The living is a vicarage in the
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The village, called Preston
Street, is not large, and the church stands about a quarter of a mile to the
west. Nash is half a mile south.
POST-OFFICE -Ralph Solley, Receiver. Letters received through Wingham, which is
also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY,
Curtis, E., Esq. br />
Jenner, Rev. Henry L., M.A.
Toomer, Samuel E., Esq.
TTRADERS.
| Addley, Thomas, farmer Burmap, Thomas, academy Bushell, James, saddler Bushell, John, farmer Culmer, Charles, farmer Dilnott, William, farmer Farmaris, John, farmer Gibbs, Edmund, shopkeeper Gibbs, George, grocer, &o. Goodson, Edward, farmer Harris, John, Seven Stars Knight, George, farmer Laslett, Edward, tailor |
Martin, Jarvis, farmer Martin, William, carpenter & wheelwright Palmer, G., shopkeeper Pryer, John, butcher Ralph, Daniel, farmer Robinson, George, miller Robinson, John, farmer Sayer, John, Swan Solley, Ralph, shoemaker and post-office Solley, Stephen, jun., and Charles, millers Solley, Stephen, farmer Warden, Stephen, wheelwright and blacksmith |