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1882 Kelly's Directory for Withyham
WITHYHAM (or WITHIAM) is a parish and station on the railway from East Grinstead to Tunbridge Wells, 8 miles south-east from East Grinstead and 7 south-west from Tunbridge Wells, in the Eastern division of the county, Hartfield hundred, East Grinstead union and county court district, Pevensey rape and rural deanery of Pevensey fourth division, Chichester diocese and Lewes archdeaconry.
The church of St. Michael is a stone building, chiefly in the perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, north chapel, nave, aisles, transept, south porch, and a western battlemented tower containing 6 bells, 2 dated 1674 and the rest 1715: on the north-east side is a private chapel, belonging to the ancient family of Sackville, with banners and shields of arms; beneath is the vault, which for many centuries has been their place of burial ; there are three fine monuments by Nollekens, Flaxman and Chantrey, and one by Cibber, of the fifth Earl of Dorset, his countess and their children; the north window exhibits, in stained glass, the inter-marriages of the family from the time of the Norman Conquest: the church was thoroughly renovated and a south aisle added in 1844. The register dates from the year 1663. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £600, with residence and 1 acre of glebe, in the gift of the Earl De Ia Warr and held since 1865 by the Rev. Thomas Frederick Rudston Read M.A. of University College, Oxford.
Not far from the church are a tower and other portions of buildings, the remains of the ancient house of Buckhurst, where the Lord Treasurer of Queen Elizabeth, afterwards mode Earl of Dorset, lived; Earl de Ia Warr is the heir of that family. Moorehouse's charity. of £7 4s.10d. yearly, is for bread, and the Countess of Thanet's, of £18, for apprenticing. A fair is held yearly on Michaelmas Day. Buckhurst Park in the seat of the Earl De la Warr; the mansion is a structure in the Elizabethan style. Forest Field Baptist Chapel is at Crowborough. Earl De la Warr is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is sandy loam and clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and oats. Hops are successfully grown in this parish and are of the finest quality.
The area is 8,086 acres; gross estimated rental £11,601; rateable value, £10,196 ; and the population in 1871 was 1,970 and in 1881, 2,150.
CROWBOROUGH is a hamlet partly in this parish but principally in that of Rotherfield, under which heading it will be found.
GROOMBRIDGE, 3 miles north-east, is principally in the parish of Speldhurst and county of Kent, a small portion only being in this parish. The railway from East Grinstead to Tunbridge Wells has a station here. There is a Wesleyan chapel. For full particulars of this place, see "Kelly's Directory of Kent."
Paris Clerk, Francis Box.
POST, MONEY ORDERS & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank.- Obadiah Hall, postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Tunbridge Wells at 5.40 a.m. & 11.55 a.m. & dispatched at 1 p.m. & 8 p.m. Postal telegraph office opens from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. week days ; & from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m, on Sundays
INSURANCE AGENT.- Economic Life, R. Winnifrith
SCHOOLs
St. Michael's School (mixed), average attendance about 100 & supported by voluntary rates & contributions ; Alexander Foard, master; Miss Foard, mistress
St. John's School, Crowborough (mixed), built in 1840, for 140 children; average attendance 136 & supported by a government grant & private subscriptions; Henry Webb, master; Mrs. Webb, mistress
Railway Station, Henry Payne, station master
CARRIER To LONDON.- John Streatfield's van, every wednesday morning, to the Nag's Head inn, Borough, returning thence every friday night |
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| Withyham Private Residents | | De la Warr Earl, 60 Grosvenor street w. & Carlton & White's clubs, London s.w; and Buckhurst Park | | Nevis Richard, The Cottage | | Boardman Rev. Edward Henry M.A., Glen Andrew, Groombridge | | Gregory Alfred | | Hutchings Samuel, Park grove | | Lang Mrs. Cross | | Littleton Rev. Ebenezer [Baptist], [Baptist], Forest Fold, Crowborough | | Pryce Alexander Thomas Albert J.P., Penn's rocks | | Read Rev. Thomas Frederick Rudston M.A., Rectory | | Sanders Rev. John M.A., Florence cottage | | Schwarz Robert, Crow's nest, Crowborough | | Temple James William, Leyswood | | Wallis William, Hardwick house, Groombridge | | Whitelock Rev. Benjamin M.A., [Curate], Groombridge | | Wood George, Beech Green park | | Withyham Commercial Directory | | Ashby Reginald, farmer, Lodge field | | Ashdown George, black, smith, Lye green | | Ashdown Thos., wheelwright, Friar's gate | | Austin Wm., shoe maker | | Bailey George, boot maker, Groombridge | | Barlow William., farmer, St: John's |
| | Bocking Fanny Madeline (Miss), ladies' school, Groombridge | | Botten William, baker, Groombridge | | Box Francis, blacksmith | | Brooman Ezra, beer retailer, Groombridge | | Clarke William, shopkeeper | | Colegate John, grocer & draper & agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants, Groombridge | | Comber Messrs., wheelwrights, Blackham | | Crowhurst Ephraim, farmer, Pound farm | | Ditch John, farmer, Little Stoneland | | Field Ferdinand, tobacconist, Groombridge | | Frost Amos, trunk maker | | Geep Jesse, butcher, Groombridge | | Goodwin William, farmer, Sherlocks | | Gregory Alfred, agent to Earl De la Warr, Buckhurst | | Grout John, fly proprietor, Groombridge | | Hale Hy., farmer & hop grower, Hale farm | | Hall Alfred, miller (water) | | Hall Edwin, farmer, Ducking's farm | | Hall John, farmer, Hendal farm | | Hall Obadiah, grocer & draper and post office | | Harding William, miller, Blackham Water mill | | Heath Fanny (Mrs.), seed dealer | | Hobson Charles, farmer, Blackham court | | Hudson Edmund, farmer, Hunt's farm | | Killick Thomas, farmer, Lye green | | Killick Thomas, farmer, Hole farm | | Killick William, farmer |
| | Kingsbury John & Sons, tanners, Groombridge | | Luff Robert, Sussex Oak | | Luxford Richard, farmer & coal merchant, Groombridge | | Martin Albert, Half Moon, Friar's gate | | Page Chas. (exors.of), farmers, Stephnetts | | Parker George, farmer, Cook's corner | | Parris Philip, farmer & hop grower, Ham farm | | Patching Thomas, farmer & landowner, Alkesford farm | | Smith William, farm steward to Earl De Ia Warr, Old Buckhurst farm | | Stevenson Amos, bricklayer, Groombridge | | Streatfield John, carrier | | Streatfield John, farmer, Tophill | | Streatfield John, farmer, Salehurst farm | | Tanner Edwin, Junction hotel & posting house, Groombridge station | | Taylor Henry, farmer & grazier, Summerford farm | | Temple William, Dorset Arms inn, Fisher's gate | | Tompsett Chas., beer retailer & shopkeeper | | Wallis William, surgeon, Hardwick house, Groombridge | | Weller Reuben, shopkeeper, Groombridge | | West George, saddler, Groombridge | | Winnifrith Robt., farmer & hop grower |
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