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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Public Houses in Shipbourne
SHIPBORNE, or SHIPBOURN, is a village, four miles from Tunbridge, N.E.; seven
S.W. from West Mailing, and two miles and a half S,E. from Sevenoaks. The
population in 1851 was 440. The church of St. Giles is an ancient edifice. The
living is a donative, in the patronage of Joseph Ridgway, Esq. Dunk's Green is
one mile and a half east; Puttenden and Claygate, one mile east; Little Park,
one mile south; Budd's Green, half a mile west; Upper Trench, half a mile S.W.;
Marchurst and Fairhill, one mile S.W.; Horn's Lodge, one mile and a half south
POST-OFFICE. - James Martin, jun., Receiver. Letters are received through
Tunbridge, which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Fitz-Wygram, Rev. F.J., Incumbent
Jervis, Lady, Fair Hill Lodge
Ridgway, Joseph, Esq., Fair Lawn
Torrington, Dowager Viscountess, the Lodge
TRADERS.
Bowra, Edward, farmer, Budds
Blatcher, William, farmer
Chalklin, James, wheelwright
Corke, James, carpenter
Cowley, Daniel, farmer
Curtis, James, farmer, Church gate
Eliott, James, farmer
Fowler, Thomas, brewer
Green, William, Bull
Jury, James, farmer
Mann, Joseph, brickmaker
Maplesden, Thomas, farmer, Claygate
Marchant, Francis, farmer, Budds
Martin, James, farmer
Martin, James, jun., grocer and post-office
Morland, Thomas, yeoman
Moyce, Sarah, butcher
Potter, William and James, millers
Pritchett, Richard, shoemaker
Richardson, Jonathan, farmer
Whiting, Thomas E., farmer
Woollett, Robert, blacksmith
Wynn, Henry, parish clerk