Willesborough, East Ashford, Ashford with Shepway

Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

WILLESBOROUGH is a village pleasantly situated on the high road from Ashford Station to Hythe, two miles S.E. from, the former, and nine miles and a half N.W. from the latter, partly in the hundred of Chart and Longbridge, East Ashford union, lathe of Scray. The church of St. Mary is a neat building. The living is a vicarage. The Rev. William Gould, M.A., is the incumbent.
The East Ashford Union workhouse had, in 1851, 169 inmates. The population in 1851 was 1,022. Alfred Town, near the South Eastern Railway factory, is a new town or suburb of Ashford, increasing in population.


POST-OFFICE - Miss Amelia Cook, Receiver. Letters received through Ashford.
The nearest Money Order Office is at Ashford.

Public Houses in Willesborough

GENTRY.
Barker, Mr. John
Collins, Frederick, Esq.
Cook, Henry, Esq., Lecton hall
Edwards, William, Esq.
Gregory, George, Esq., Spotlands
Gould, Rev. William, M.A., Vicarage
Norwood, Curtis, Esq.
Waterman, Captain John


TRADERS.

Back, George, cattle salesman Blatcher, George, farmer Brown, Mrs. Ann, shopkeeper Bruce, Richard, farmer Bull, John, watchmaker Burmarsh, John, Chittenden Farm Chittenden, John, wheelwright Cook, Mrs. Elizabeth, grocer Cook, Henry, farmer Cook, William, general smith Cook, William, M.R.C.S., veterinary surgeon Carnes, John, grocer and miller Cavey, John, market gardener Durtnall, John, butcher Durtnall, William, wheelwright Epps, John, carpenter Gayler, Abraham, shopkeeper Hart, John, Blacksmiths' Arms

Judge, John Foster, farmer Kingsland, John, farmer Miller, William, carpenter Pellatt, Daniel, boot and shoe maker Perkins, Thomas, farmer, miller, and lime burner Scott, William, farmer Sealey, John, fanner and grazier Steddy, William, builder, and parish clerk Stevens, James, farmer, and land agent Stevens, John, farmer Stockwell, William, boot and shoe maker Swain, Abraham J., baker and grocer Terry, Henry, beer retailer Tournay, James, builder, painter, and glazier Tuff, Isaac, grocer Wanstall, John, grocer, the Albion Worger, James, pork butcher

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