HALSTEAD is a village, six miles from Sevenoaks, containing 289 inhabitants. The
church is dedicated to St. Margaret. The living is a rectory, in the patronage
of the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Rev. Thomas Kerwood Bowyer, M.A. is the
incumbent.
Broke Farm, Cadlock's Hill, and Bopeep, are one mile north ; Richmore Hill is
half a mile S.W.; Washneys, one mile S.W.; Currie one mile south.
POST-OFFICE - George Slaughter, Receiver. Letters arrive from Sevenoaks.
The nearest Money Order Office is at Sevenoaks.
GENTRY.
Atkins, John P., Esq., Ealstead place
Bowyer, Rev. Thomas JL, M.A., Rector
Mann, Mrs. C. L.
Young, Mrs. Charlotte
TRADERS.
Atkins, Thomas, boot and shoe maker Brooker, Robert, fruiterer
Bowen, John, timber dealer and farmer Drifflelds, John and Robert, farmers, Stone House Farm
Graham, William, fruiterer
Hicks, William Gunman, farmer Parrell, Charles, Cock Parrell, Peter, farmer
Rose, Mrs. Laura, schoolmistress
Rose, Richard, schoolmaster
Slaughter, George, grocer and post-office Vallins, Henry, parish clerk
Walton, John, fruiterer
Whitehead, Joseph, grocer
Whitehead, Robert, farmer, Currie Farm