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Penshurst, Sevenoaks,
Tunbridge Wells
Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
PENSHURST is a neat village and parish, near a station of the South-Eastern railway, six miles and a half N.W. of Tunbridge Wells, and five miles and a half S.W. from Tunbridge. The population in 1851 was 1,628. The church of St. John the Baptist is a well built structure. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of Lord de L'Isle and Dudley, and incumbency of the Rev. William Green, M.A.; the Rev. G. M. Smith, M.A., curate. A small neat chapel of ease was built in 1847, in the early English style of architecture, at Fordcoombe Green, a small hamlet, about two miles from the village; the Rev. William Trevenen, M.A., is the curate.
POST-OFFICE. _ Francis Arnold, Receiver. Letters arrive from Tunbridge, which is
also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Allnutt, Mrs., the Grove
Bailer, Richard, Esq.
Boissier, Rev. George R., M.A.
Cattley, John George, Esq.
De L'Isle and Dudley, Right Hon. Lord, Penshurst Castle
Green, Rey. William, M.A., Rector
Hardinge, Right Hon. Viscount, South Park
Nasmyth, James, Esq., Culver hill
Streatfleld, Mrs. Charlotte
Taylor, Mr. William
Trevenen, Rev. William
Smith, Rev. G. M., M.A., Curate
Wells, William, Esq.
Wickham, Mrs. Harriet, New House
Woodgate, William, Esq.
Yates, Miss
Yates, William, Esq.
TRADERS.
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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
PENSHURST is a neat village and parish, near a station of the South-Eastern railway, six miles and a half N.W. of Tunbridge Wells, and five miles and a half S.W. from Tunbridge. The population in 1851 was 1,628. The church of St. John the Baptist is a well built structure. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of Lord de L'Isle and Dudley, and incumbency of the Rev. William Green, M.A.; the Rev. G. M. Smith, M.A., curate. A small neat chapel of ease was built in 1847, in the early English style of architecture, at Fordcoombe Green, a small hamlet, about two miles from the village; the Rev. William Trevenen, M.A., is the curate.
POST-OFFICE. _ Francis Arnold, Receiver. Letters arrive from Tunbridge, which is
also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Allnutt, Mrs., the Grove
Bailer, Richard, Esq.
Boissier, Rev. George R., M.A.
Cattley, John George, Esq.
De L'Isle and Dudley, Right Hon. Lord, Penshurst Castle
Green, Rey. William, M.A., Rector
Hardinge, Right Hon. Viscount, South Park
Nasmyth, James, Esq., Culver hill
Streatfleld, Mrs. Charlotte
Taylor, Mr. William
Trevenen, Rev. William
Smith, Rev. G. M., M.A., Curate
Wells, William, Esq.
Wickham, Mrs. Harriet, New House
Woodgate, William, Esq.
Yates, Miss
Yates, William, Esq.
TRADERS.
| Arnold, Francis, grocer, and post-office Austin, Nathaniel, farmer Bailer, Richard, surgeon Bates, William Nimrod, farmer Beale, John, farmer Blackstone, William, boot and shoe maker Collins, David, carpenter Crittenden, _, farmer Constable, Mrs. Elizabeth, plumber, &c. Constable, Henry, builder Cook, James, boot and shoe maker Dodson, Francis, shopkeeper Duke and Son, manufacturers of cricket bats, &c. Duke, William, Leicester Arms Inn Eagleton, William, tailor Fenner, James, farmer Foster, Henry, farmer Fuller, Richard, grocer Gibbs, William, farm bailiff Goodwin, James, wheelwright Goodwin, Alfred, Chafford Arms Gyle, Henry, beer retailer Hammond, George, farmer Hammond, Thomas, sen., farmer Hammond, Thomas, jun., farmer Hardwick, Frederick, furniture broker Hollamby, John, farmer and miller |
Hopkins, Robert, farmer Hopkins, Thomas, farmer Jeffery, O., saddle and harness maker Jenner, Edward, carpenter Kneller, Abraham, butcher Moore, Richard, ironmonger, etc Nightingale, William, farmer Ovenden, Henry, grocer and draper Ovenden, John, master of national school Ovenden, Mrs. Sarah, mistress of national school Page, Edward, farmer Page, Thomas, farmer Pocock, John, farmer Read, Peter, farmer Reeder, Zachariah, beer/retailer Sales, Henry, master of national school Saxby, John, farmer Scrace, Thomas, blacksmith Skerras, Miss, schoolmistress Snashall, Thomas, farmer Still, James, butcher Taylor, Henry, farmer Turner, Richard, paper manufacturer Wills, William, farmer Wickens, James, boot and shoe maker Witney, Samuel, farmer Woodhans, Richard, butcher Young, John, farmer |
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