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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Public Houses in Sevenoaks
Traders in 1858
SEVENOAKS is a pleasant market and union town, situated on high ground, and is
surrounded by a delightfully diversified country. There are many handsome seats,
the residences of the numerous nobility of this healthy and agreeable locality.
The town is lighted with gas, and consists of two principle seats. There is a
market held on Saturday, but principally for corn. The population in 1851,
including Riverhead, Town Borould, and the Weald, was 4,178. The church is
dedicated to St Nicholas; it stands at the south end of the town, and is a
handsome building in the perpendicular style, with a square tower, which can be
seen each way for a considerable distance. The Rev. Thomas Curteis, M.A., is the
patron, incumbent, and impropriator; the Rev. Cyril Curteis, B.A., curate; and
the Rev. Edward H Boardman, second curate. Two episcopal chapels, with houses
for ministers, have been erected in the parish, by the Earl Amherst and the late
Multon Lambarde, Esq., with consent of the vicar as patron; one situated in
Weald, and the other at Riverhead.
The livings are perpetual curacies, in the patronage of the rector after the
decease of the founders. There is a Wesleyan chapel, which was erected in 1852,
by William W Pocock, Esq., a neat edifice, built in the Gothic style of
architecture, and will accommodate about 400 persons; the Rev. William B. Dennis
is the minister. There is also a chapel belonging to the Particular Baptists,
capable of accommodating 400 persons ; the Rev. Thomas Shirley is the minister.
The union workhouse has recently been removed to Birchfield, in the parish of
Sundridge. Here is also a literary and scientific institution, with 1,000
volumes.
POST-OFFICE. - Samuel Thomas Hills, Postmaster. London letters arrive by Mail
cart
from Tunbridge at 6 A.M., delivered at 7 A.M. Money Orders are granted and paid
at this office.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank. - Charles Palmer, Manager, Draw on 21, Lombard street.
Savings' Bank. - Open from 12 until 1 o'clock every Monday. Thomas Mills,
Actuary.
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
Excise Office. - Held at the Royal Crown,
Gas Works. - John Shewen, Secretary.
Stamp Office. - G. W. Harrison, Distributor.
Union House. - James Browne.
Scientific and Literary Institution. - Thomas Hancock, George Ashdown,
Secretaries.
Police Station, near the Vine. - James Handley, Superintendent of County
Constabulary.
PLACES OF WORSHIP AND SCHOOLS
Calvinist Chapel.
New Wesleyan Chapel. - The Rev. William B. Dennis, Minister.
Particular Baptist Chapel. - Rev. Thomas Shirley.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. - Rev. James Raven, B.A., Second Master.
Lady Boswell's Free School. - John Thomas Bowen, Master.
GENTRY.
| Adams, Robert E., Esq., High street Allen, William Henry, Esq., Mina House Amherst, Right Hon. Countess, Mary, Knole Park Austen, Mrs. John, High street Austen, Mrs. George Lennard, High street Austen, Mrs. Henry, Bellevue Austen, Colonel Thomas, Kippington Park Binyon, Mr. Benjamin, Hope Cottage Boardman, Rev. Edward Hubbard, (second Curate of Sevenoaks) Brain, Mr. William, High street Briggs, Mr. Richard Ring, Bradbourne Vale Carnell, Thomas, Esq., High street Carnell, George Frederick, Esq., the Vine Child, George, Esq., St. John's Hill Clark, Mrs. Ann, Vine Villa Clark, Joseph, Esq., River Hill Cottage Clark, Mr. John, London road Cole, George Calverley, Esq. Covell, the Misses, High street Crowhurst, Mr. Robert, No. 1, Suffolk place Currie, Rev. Horace Gore, M.A,, Manor House Curteis, Rev. Cyril Thomas, B.A., Vicarage (Curate of Sevenoaks) Curteis, Rev. Thomas, M.A., Rectory (Patron, Incumbent, and Impropriator) Davison, Miss Christian Dennis, Rev. William B., Wesleyan Minister, London road Edwards, the Misses, Bank place Ellis, John, Esq., Suffolk place Felkin, Rev. John, Baptist Minister, Hartslands Fenner, Mr. George, Hartslands Franks, George, Esq., High street Garbett, Mrs. Christopher Gatty, Miss M., High street Golding, John A., Esq., Suffolk place Gordon, Rear-Admiral Robert, St. John's hill Greene, Mrs. M., High street Grut, Nicholas, Esq., Stone Villa Hards, Mrs,, St. John's hill Hardes, Mrs. Ann, Suffolk place Harman, Mrs. Sarah, Bradbourne vale |
Hazard, Thomas, Esq., near the Vine Herries, Right Hon. Charles John, St. Julian's Hickmott, Mr. William Hilton, Mrs., the Vine Hockley, Mrs. Ann, High street Holcroft, William Francis, Esq., High street Holcroft, Colonel William Hooper, Mrs. Harriet, High street Kelson, George, Esq., High street Kemp, Henry Darling, Esq., Vine Cottage Knott, Miss Emily, High street Lambard, William, Esq., Beeohmont Lightfoot, Thomas, Esq. Lloyd, Rev. Samuel Webb, the Vine House Maundrell, Mr. William, Hartslands Mills, Thomas, Esq., Bradbourne Vale Morgan, Miss Mary, Vine Lodge Morphew, Mrs., London road Mountford, Rev. Joseph, High street Nouaille, Peter, Esq., St. John's hill Palmer, Charles, Esq., Suffolk place Palmer, John, Esq., High street Palmer, Charles, jun., Esq., Suffolk Cottage Parker, Mr. Thomas, London road Parker, Mrs. John, High street Parker, Mr. George Green, near the Vine Parker, Mrs. Henry, Henry's Cottage Raven, Rev. James, B.A., Second Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Ring, Mrs., St. John's hill Rogers, John, Esq., River Hill House Shewen, Mrs. Mary M., London road Shirley, Rev. Thomas Smith, Mrs., St. John's hill Sutton, John, Esq., High street Wackerbath, George, Esq. Ward, Mrs. M. A. Warren, Mr. John, London road Watts, Miss Eleanor, Myrtle Cottage Glendining, Alexander, Esq., Ash Grove Webb, Mrs. Ann, Rose Cottage Willard, Mrs., the Vine Willis, Mr. Henry, Rose Cottage Wilson, Mrs. E., London road Wilson, Mrs. Keren huppuck Wood, Mr. Thomas, St. John's hill Woodington, Mrs. Ann, Park place |