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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Public Houses on Waltham
Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
WALTHAM, styled in ancient records TEMPLE WALTHAM, is a bye village and parish
in the lathe of St. Augustine, hundreds of Bridge and Petham, Wye and Stawling,
and Bridge union, East Kent, and is eight miles from Canterbury; ten N.E. of
Ashford station; five east of Wye station; and 77 from London. The Church of St.
Bartholomew is very ancient; the living is a vicarage united to that of Petham.
Wadden Hall, North Lye, and Thorn, are places in the neighbourhood. The
population, in 1851, was 576. Richdore and Walnuttree are a quarter of a mile
west; Anvil Gree, or Handwell, half a mile north; Bawcombe, one mile north;
Wadden Hall, one mile and a half east; Whittaker Street, three quarters of a
mile south.
Letters received through Canterbury. The nearest Money Order Office is at Wye.
TRADERS.
Branes, William, saddler
Brice, Samuel, farmer
Cox, Marshall, farmer
Daniels, Mrs. Sarah, blacksmith
Dilnot, William, miller and farmer
Gage, Thomas, carrier
Gambrill, Stephen, farmer
Gibbs, Henry, carrier
Haras, Henry, farmer
Harvey,William, carpenter and wheelwright
Hobday, Thomas, saddler
Mills, Mrs. Sarah, farmer
Pypus, H., carpenter and wheelwright
Scott, Mrs. Jane, farmer
Stickles, George, carpenter and wheelwright
Sutton, John, farmer
Tucker, William, Lord Nelson, and farmer
Vickers, Mrs. Anne, farmer
Vickers, Thomas, farmer
Warden, William, farmer