BRABOURNE is a village five miles east from Ashford, two and a half
north from Smeeth Station, partly in the hundred of Wye. The church is
a large and handsome building. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rev. James Brothers is the incumbent.
The population in 1851 was 816. Here is a Baptist Chapel. Fiddling
Street is half a mile S.E.; Broad Street, one S.W.; West Brabourne, one
mile and a half west; Waterford, two miles N.W.; Bulltown Corner, one
mile and a half N.W.; Brabourne Lees, two miles S.W.; Park House, one
mile and a half S.W.
POST-OFFICE - Thomas Swaffer, Receiver. The nearest Money Order Office is at
Ashford.
GENTRY.
Brothers, Rev. James, vicar | Ford, Mr. William, Waterford
TRADERS.
Andrews, Onslow, brickmaker and farmer
Chittenden, Henry, schoolmaster
Daniels, Edward, blacksmith
Daysey, Thomas, basket maker
Daysey, William, brazier
Foreman, John, shopkeeper
Hammond, Edward, farmer, Court Lodge Farm
Harvey, John, shoemaker
Hills, Thomas, farmer
Inge, Charles, farmer, Fiddling street
Kingsland, George, shopkeeper
Marchant, Thomas, farmer
Mate, John, miller
Morley, Godfrey, farmer
Morley, Mace, farmer
Noble, William, farmer
Palmer, E. S., grocer and baker
Palmer, Jarvis, butcher
Pellatt, James, farmer, Brabourne Combe
Philpott, William, shoemaker
Pilcher, John, farmer
Rolfe, Edward, farmer
Rolfe, George C, farmer, Bulltown Corner
Rolfe, Thomas, miller
Sackey, George, beer retailer
Swaffer, Thomas, grocer and post-office
Thornley, Simon, farmer
Vince, James, farmer and tile maker
Weeks, James farmer
White, James, carpenter and baker