CHARTHAM lies near the Canterbury Railway, three miles S.W. of Canterbury.
The population was, in 1851, 1,138. The church of Saint Mary is a large and
handsome
building in the shape of a cross. Shalmsford is a considerable hamlet, adjoining
Chartham, with about 200 inhabitants. Chartham Hatch, or Hatch Green, is another
hamlet, with about 170 inhabitants, one mile north. Horton half-a-mile N.E.;
Milton
Chapel, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, one mile N.E., is returned with Canterbury.
Denstead is two miles north, in Blean Forest; as in Petty France. Howfield
adjoins
Milton. Nickhill is one mile N.W., Myshole, 1½ miles S.W.; Upper Town, one mile
south; Druksted, one mile south ; Perly, one mile south ; Sevington, two miles
south; Cowlinge Green, two miles South; Kenfield, two miles S.E.
POST-OFFICE—Mrs. Jane Ratcliff, Receiver. The nearest Money Order Office
is at Canterbury.
GENTRY
Brown, John, Esq., Chartham Deanery Fagge, Sir John, Bart.
Moody, Rev. Henry Riddell, M.A.
Paine, Leeds, Esq.
Parker, Lysimachus, Esq., Myshole House D'Aeth, Rev. Cloudley Hughes, curate