STANDFORD, or STANFORD, is a village four miles N.W. from Hythe, and seven west
from Folkestone, close to the Westenhanger station. The population in 1851 was
297. The church is a neat building. The Rev. William Tylden, M.A., is the patron
and incumbent. The hamlets of Newin Green and Gimmingebrook, or Gibbon Brook,
are a part of Standford parish, one mile west, with about sixty inhabitants.
Hillhouse is one mile south; Heighten, half a mile N.W.; Blindhouse, half a mile
N.W.
POST-OFFICE - Thomas Cox, Receiver. The nearest Money Order Office is at Hythe.
Tylden, Rev. William, M.A.