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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Westwell Public Houses
WESTWELL is a village adjoining Eastwell, three miles and a half from
Ashford, north of that town, in Lathe of Scray, Colehill, Hundred and West
Ashford Union, East Kent; the living is a vicarage, in the gift of the
Archbishop of Canterbury ; the incumbent is the Rev. John Alexander Ross,
M.A.; the church is to the right of the road; there is also a national
school here, and the West Ashford union workhouse, with 100 inmates. The
population in 1851 was 1,030; the Wesleyans and Baptists have each a
chapel. Dignash is half a mile south; Dann Street half a mile N.B.; Frog
Wood and Digg. Farm one mile and a half west; Westwell Leaton two miles
west; Nest half a mile south; Castle one mile south; Bevenden one mile and a
half south; Shottington half a mile S.E.; Lenaker Street and Goatly Lees one
mile and a half S.E.; Sandhurst one mile and a half S.E.
POST-OFFICE, Westwell Common— - Thomas Russell, Receiver. The nearest Money
Order Offices are at Ashford and Charing,
GENTRY.
Chapman, Misses Elizabeth and Catherine
Ross, Rev. John Alexander, M.A., Vicar.
TRADERS.
| Back, Thomas, farmer Brenchley, William, Wagon and Horses Burden, James, shoemaker Burden, Thomas, blacksmith Chapman, Thomas B., farmer Cheeseman, Robert, farmer Cook, John, farmer Flint, Thomas, brickmaker Foord, John, farmer Gale, Mrs. Jane, Woolpack Hart, Stephen, farmer Head, William, miller Histed, Thomas, farmer Hobday, Valentine, wheelwright Homeward, William, farmer Home, John Austin, farmer Jell, Misses Jane and Mary, farmers, Haven Farm Jenkins, Stephen, farmer and dealer Judge, Richard, farmer Kennett, Thomas, farmer Langley, Luke, registrar of births & deaths Millen, John, farmer Moore, William, farmer, Lenacre Hall |
Page, Thomas, farmer Parnham, Thomas, shopkeeper Settatree, Eliz., Mrs., shopkeeper Sharp, Barling, farmer Skinner, Joseph, butcher and shopkeeper Skinner, Stephen, farmer Small, Mary, Mrs., grocer Stace, James, carpenter and wheelwright Standford, Gregory, blacksmith Stone, James, blacksmith Sappenden, Henry, farmer and miller Vaunt, Henry, wheelwright Whittle, Nancy, Mrs., farmer Whittle, William, farmer Wood, Daniel, carpenter Union Workhouse: Thomas Butler Jones, master Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, matron John Thomas Jones, schoolmaster Miss Eliza Langley, schoolmistress Rev. John Alexander Ross, M.A., chaplain Charles Wilks, surgeon Luke Langley and Thomas Hall, relieving officers |