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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
UPCHURCH is a village, five miles N.W. of Sittingbourne, and six miles east of
Rochester and Brompton. The population in 1851 was 407. The church is dedicated
to the Virgin Mary. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of All Souls' College,
Oxford, and incumbency of the Rev. John Woodruff. Twinney is one mile long, by a
quarter of a mile wide. Gore Wood is half a mile south; Hersham, a quarter of a
mile west; Otterham Quay, half a mile west; Holywell, a quarter of a mile S.E.;
Weham Green, half a mile north; Ham Green, one mile north.
Letters received through Maidstone. The nearest Money Order Offices are at
Sittingbourne and Chatham.br />
Rev. John Woodruff, Vicarage
Public Houses in Upchurch
TRADERS.
Friday, William, miller
Green, William, farmer
Cozens, Edward, blacksmith
Hubbard, James, stone merchant
Mark, John, Anchor and Hope
Miskin, Henry, farmer
Mitchell, Richard, farmer
Midge, Edwin, carpenter
Smart, Charles, farmer
Salmon, William, farmer
Spital, William, farmer
Wyles, William, Crown, and shopkeeper