SHIPBORNE, or SHIPBOURN, is a village, four miles from Tunbridge, N.E.; seven
S.W. from West Mailing, and two miles and a half S,E. from Sevenoaks. The
population in 1851 was 440. The church of St. Giles is an ancient edifice. The
living is a donative, in the patronage of Joseph Ridgway, Esq. Dunk's Green is
one mile and a half east; Puttenden and Claygate, one mile east; Little Park,
one mile south; Budd's Green, half a mile west; Upper Trench, half a mile S.W.;
Marchurst and Fairhill, one mile S.W.; Horn's Lodge, one mile and a half south
POST-OFFICE. - James Martin, jun., Receiver. Letters are received through
Tunbridge, which is also the nearest Money Order Office.
GENTRY.
Fitz-Wygram, Rev. F.J., Incumbent
Jervis, Lady, Fair Hill Lodge
Ridgway, Joseph, Esq., Fair Lawn
Torrington, Dowager Viscountess, the Lodge