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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
STAPLEHURST is a railway station and village, five miles north from Cranbrook,
17 miles from Maidstone, and 28 from Canterbury. The population in 1851 was
1,660. The church is an ancient edifice, and stands on rising ground. The living
is a rectory, in the presentation of St. John's College, Cambridge, The Rev.
Thomas Crick is the incumbent. Here is also an Independent chapel. Spill's Hill
is half a mile east; Yeakshurst, three quarters of a mile east; Broadlake, one
mile and a half S.E.; Cuckold's Corner, a quarter of a mile north; Aydhurst,
half a mile N.W.,; Great and Little Pagehurst, and Five Ashes, one mile west;
Henhurst, half a mile S.W.; Fullers, half a mile south; St. Dennis, one mile
S..W.; Iden Green, three quarters of a mile south; Lovehurst, one mile and a
half S.W.; Matterass Green, one mile and three quarters S.W.; Nock's Bridge, one
mile and a quarter south; Maplehurst, one mile S.E.; Chickenden and Bailey
House, one mile and a half N.E.; Stamey House, one mile N.E; Hern's Lodge, one
mile N.E.; Hockenbury, one mile and a half N.E; Newstead, one mile and a half
N.E.; Cushman's Green, and Swithland's Corner, one mile and a half north; Cross
in Hand and Hersfield Bridges, two miles north; Duckhurst, one mile north; St
Ann's Green, one mile and ha;f N.W.
POST-OFFICE. - John Vidler Hickmott, Receiver. Money Orders are granted and paid
at this Office.
GENTRY.
Burgess, Mrs.
Crick, Rev.Thomas, M.A., Rector
Hoare, Henry, Esq., Staplehurst place
Jackson, Lieutenant Robert Amelius, R.N.
Ottaway, William Nash, Esq.
Penkivil, John, Esq.,
Rug, Mrs.
Usborne, Mrs.
TRADERS.
| Ballad, Eli, farmer Barling, Isaac and Son, coal dealers Barling, Isaac, farmer Barling, Robert, shopkeeper and carrier Barnes, William, farmer Beeching, Jesse, beer retailer Bourman, Edward, wheelwright Bover, William, farmer Bryant, Benjamin, draper and grocer Burr, Robert, farmer Burt, William, blacksmith Butcher, John, King's Head, and farmer Cheeseman, John, Bell Chittenden, William, blacksmith Field, Mrs. Mary, farmer Field, Edward, relieving officer Foorman, John, farmer Fuller, James, beer retailer George, John, farmer Hawkins, Christopher, bookseller, stationer and agent to the Law Union Fire and Life Office. Hickmott, John Vidler, postmaster Hitchin, Jesse, beer retailer Huggins, Mrs. G., beer retailer Jackson, Robert Amelius, station master Jull, John, grocer and draper Jull, William, valuer and guano merchant Loadwell, Mrs. Sarah, farmer Mannering, Robert, farmer Masters, William, carrier |
Nunn, John, tailor Ottaway, William Nash, solicitor and clerk to the Guardians of the Maidstone Union, and superintendent registrar of the Maidstone district Penkivil, John, surgeon Pollard, Charles, beer retailer Poyer, George, Crown and wheelwright Reader, William, beer retailer Reeves, Henry, boot and shoe maker Reeves, John, farmer Reeves, Thomas, ironmonger, and agent to the Kent Fire and Life Office Reeves and Son, builders and architects Roberts, William, farmer Rofe, Sion, farmer Russell, George, farmer Samson, Stephen, farmer Sharp, Edward, farmer Simmons, Edward, farmer Simmons, John, farmer Simmons, Mrs. Louisa, shopkeeper Simmons, Thomas, farmer Smith, James, farmer Smith, William, farmer Spratt, John, farmer Stedman, Mrs., saddler Still, George, farmer Terrington, Zachariah, South Eastern Hotel, job and posting house Tomsett, Henry, farmer and boot and shoe maker Tomsett, William, butcher Waghorn, Joseph, grocer and baker Walter, Charles, butcher Ward, James, farmer Watson, Frederick, ham dresser Wickings, William, builder Wilson, Stephen, beer retailer |