Smarden , West Ashford, Ashford with Shepway

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.


SMARDEN is a small town and parish, 9 miles north from Tenterden, and three miles S.E. from Headcorn station. The population in 1851 was 1,102.
The church is a handsome and commodious edifice. The living is a rectory, in the
gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. There is also a meeting house for dissenters.

POST-OFFICE. - William Gurr, Postmaster. Letters arrive from Cranbrook, which is also the nearest money Order Office.

GENTRY.

Allen, Gabriel, Esq.
Haslewood, Rev. Frederick
Sanders, Mr. Job

Public Houses in Smarden

TRADERS.

Acres, George, shoemaker
Anderson, Edward, plumber
Austin, Benjamin, farmer
Batt, Charles, farmer
Birt, Henry, farmer
Bone, William E., brazier
Buss, Charles, grocer, etc
Buss, Daniel, farmer
Chalcraft, Thomas, tailor
Chambers, John, bricklayer
Cooper, John, farmer
Copping, Robert, shoemaker
Comes, James, farmer
Cornes, Thomas, farmer
Comes, William, farmer
Day, John, draper and glover
Dean, Thomas, farmer
Evenden, James, butcher
Pitch, Edwin, farmer
Giles, Richard, beer retailer
Griffith, James, surgeon
Gurr, Edward, carpenter
Gurr, William, draper
Hayler, Charles, shoemaker
Heathfield, George, John, and David, farmers
Heathfleld, Job, White Horse
Hickmott, James, farmer
Hinds, William, farmer
Homewood, Edward, farmer
Homewood, James, farmer,
Jell, Horace and James, farmers
Law, Samuel, assistant overseer
Marshall, Thomas, rake maker
Mills, Lewis, grocer, etc
Morris, James, carpenter
Morris, James, farmer
Munn, George, butcher
Munn, George, carpenter
Nichols, John, shoemaker
Offen, Thomas, brickmaker
Offen, Benjamin, farmer
Offen, William, farmer
Ottaway, John, shoemaker
Pearson, James, farmer
Pearson, William, wheelwright
Russell, Thomas, farmer
Tassell, Jesse, beer retailer
Turk, Jerry, blacksmith
West, William, Chequers
Wood, Henry, farmer
Wood, Richard, farmer
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