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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

Public Houses in Sundridge

SUNDRIDGE is a village and parish, Four miles west-by-north, from Sevenoaks, and two miles and a half east from Westerham. The population in 1851 was 1,642. Sundridge is in the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocess of Rochester, a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and within the Deanery of Shoreham. The living is a rectory, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Rev. Henry Lindsay, M.A., is the incumbent, and the Rev. Augustus Cornwall is curate.

POST-OFFICE. - Joseph Watts, Postmaster. Letters are received through Sevenoaks.

IDE HILL is a hamlet of this parish, two miles south. :

POST-OFFICE. Letters arrive from Edenbridge at 7 a.m., by messenger; depart .at 45
minutes past 8 a.m. Second post arrives at 3 p.m. ; departs at 6.30 a.m. Letters
arrive at Ide Hill from Sundridge, by messenger, at 8 p.m.; depart at 5 a.m. The
nearest Money Order Offices are at Sevenoaks and Westerham.

GENTRY.

Brown, Mrs. Esther
Brown, Mrs. Jane Isabella
Clayton, the Rev. Augustus Philip
Cornwall, the Rev. Augustus Kingseote, Curate
Coleman, Mrs. Mary
Collier, Miss Sarah
Gow, George, Esq., Oak Lodge
Hill, Samuel Charles, Esq., Wood Side House
Lindsay, the Rev., M. A., Rector, the Rectory
Polhill, Charles, Esq., Combe Bank Villa
Swift, Mr. Ephraim, Prospect House
Whitmore, Robert, Esq., Bishop's Cottage
Wimberley, Rev. Charles, Ovenden House, chaplain to the union
Wheeler, Mrs. Clara


TRADERS.

Bookham, William, farmer, Oak Lodge
Burfoot, John, farmer, Browning's Farm
Brown, James, governor of union
Crowhurst, William, farmer, Brook Place
Cole, Joshua, farmer and grocer
Curd, William, corn and coal dealer
Dark, Henry, farmer, Ovenden Green and Dry Hill
Dye, Edmund, farmer, Warren's Farm
Dodd, Mrs. Mary Ann, milliner
Foster, George, porter to union
Harvey, Thomas, beer retailer
Hawkins, Jane and Mary Aim, ladies' school
Hodges, Aaron, animal preserver
Hunt, Isaac, grocer
Ingram, William, builder
Jarrett, John, boot and shoe maker
Jessup, Peter, lime burner, Ovenden Green
Jessup, James, farmer, Sundridge hill
Knight, George, farmer, Winkhurst Green
Lomas, William, grocer
Marchant, William, farmer, Norman street
Martin, William, boot and shoe maker
Morley, Thomas, White Horse Inn
Newman, Cornelius, Lamb Inn and Folley Farm
Nightingale, Thomas, boot and shoe maker builder
Piper, John, farmer, Chain's Farm
Palmer, Thomas, parish clerk
Richardson, John, plumber and glazier
Riley, William, schoolmaster to union
Roots, Henry, blacksmith
Robinson, Mrs. Phillis, matron of union
Robinson, Miss Agnes, schoolmistress of union
Stanley, James Shaw, farmer, York's hill
Slatter, John, Sundridge place
Shorey, William, butcher
Stevens, Benjamin, farmer, Goathurst Common
Stevens, Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer, Norman street
Stevens, Mrs Mary, farmer, Dry hill
Sutton, William, carpenter and wheelwright
Sweetser, Mrs. Hannah, carpenter and
Tapsell, Edward, farmer, Penn Farm
Tapsell, Charles, baker
Thompson, Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer, Winkhurst Green
Waring, Thomas, relieving officer, and registrar of births and deaths
Watts, Joseph, tailor, postmaster, agent to the Sussex Agricultural Express and Weald of Kent Mail, and to the Liverpool Life and Fire Insurance Company
Wells, Joseph, farmer, Scollops' Farm
Woods, William, farmer, Faulkner's hill
Woollett, Robert, beer retailer

IDE HILL.

GENTRY.
Lindsay, the Rev. Henry, jun., M.A., perpetual Curate
Bliss, the Rev., Curate



TRADERS.
Boaks, Thomas, timber dealer
Burnett, Richard, wheelwright
Burnett, Mrs. Ann, straw bonnet maker
Damper, Richard, shoemaker
Deadman, David, builder
Hall, Thomas, butcher
Ingram, John, baker
Leigh, Robert and Joseph, beer retailers and grocers
Kirby, William, carpenter
Mace, John, postmaster
Pain, George, schoolmaster
Pain, Mary Ann, schoolmistress
Sharman, Samuel Edward, Cock Inn
Shoesmith, Edward Sears, grocer
Smith, John, blacksmith
Whitebread, Henry, blacksmith

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