Sundridge,  Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells

Kent Villages, Towns & Public Houses - History, Genealogy & Trade Directories

Kent Villages Home Page | Kent Districts & Kent Lathes |Kent Villages and Towns A - Z

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

London pub history directory.

• Email
• Roman London - the London city walls
• Londons lost Rivers
• Pepys Taverns
• Early London pub tokens
• Survey of London in 1756
• Masonic Taverns & Coffee Houses
• Haunted London
• St Pauls Cathedral
• Westminster
• Maps of Old London
• Fleet River & Prison etc
• John Lockie 1810
• 1818 Street directory
• 1832 Street directory
• 1843 Street directory
• LCC 1918 Summary
• 1921 Street directory
• Excavations of the London Wall
• 1938 Street index
• 1940 Street directory
• LONDON Pub History
• TFL stations