Farningham, Dartford, Gravesend

Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

FARNINGHAM is a large village and parish, seventeen miles from Maidstone, five miles south from Dartford, and nine miles north of Sevenoaks.  The population is 701. The church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, is built in the early English style. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Rev. Andrew William Burnside is the incumbent.
Charlton is half a mile S.E.; Beesfield, one mile S.E.; Pedham, one mile N.W.

POST-OFFICE - Joseph Hearn, Receiver, letters are received through Dartford, which is also the nearest Money Order Office.

Public Houses in Farningham

GENTRY.

Barton, Mr. Henry Burnside, Rev. Andrew William, Vicar Colyer, Charles, Esq. Rashleigh, Charles, Esq., Hill House' Colyer, Thomas, Esq. Edwards, Mrs., Croft House Gay, Rev. John Holmes, Curate

Payne, Colonel Rogers, Mr. Henry Rashleigh, Charles, Esq., Hill House Slaughter, Thomas G., M.D. Steele, John, Esq. Wilson, Rev. F., Curate

TRADERS.

Ayliff, George, tailor Bath, John, farmer, Moultam Hill Beckley, Phillis, ladies' seminary Bellingham, John, grocer Bellingham, Henry, farmer Bicknell, George, grocer Chilman, Stephen, carrier Collier, Robert, draper Davis, James, Red Lion Inn Dray, William, farmer Dray, William, and Co., agricultural engineers, Darenth Vale Iron Works, Farningham and Dartford Field, Henry, hairdresser Frost, John, baker Gandy, John, saddler Gandy, Louisa, draper Gibson, William, smith Gregory, Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper Hales, George, blacksmith Hearn, Joseph, postmaster and bootmaker Hodsoll, William, auctioneer

Hollands, William, buss proprietor Hook, Stephen, grocer Howe, George, engineer Hunt, Frederick, surgeon Lockyer, Alfred, agent Martin, Mrs. Mary, butcher Moore, William, miller Norton, David, miller Phillips, Mrs. Jane, Bull Phillips, John, farmer, Manor Farm Sharwood, Jeremiah, carpenter Sharwood, T. M. G., tailor Slaughter, Thomas G., surgeon Smede, Thomas, bailiff Smith, William, farmer Stanford, Mrs. Ann, baker Stockley, Thomas C., painter, &c. Sparks, William, carrier Wallis, Rickeby, tailor Wallis, Samuel, Bricklayers' Arms Whitehead, Henry, watchmaker Woolley, Joseph, bricklayer

 

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