~ NEW DOVER ROAD ~

CANTERBURY

New Dover Road was laid out by a private Act of Parliament in 1792

 

The great high road, at the entrance to the city, through the late St. George's gate, from Dovor, being narrow, with several dangerous turnings, an act was obtained that year to alter the course of it entirely, by making new roads towards Dovor, in a straight line from that gate, for more than a mile and a half, through Barton Field, on each side of which several houses have been built.

 

The junction of Lower Chantry Lane and New Dover Road, in 1941, thank you to Paul Crampton for the use of the above photo.

 

St. George's Place / Lower Chantry Lane

 

ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS

No. 1

George Ash, Retired Brewer

Emily Mount, niece, born Nackington *daughter of George Mount and Martha Ash (Martha is George Ash's sister)

*George Ash, Barton Fields, Canterbury, 366 0 0 (acres) 750 0 (rent), return of owners of land, 1873 (Kent)

He was at 36 Watling street in the 70's, Retired brewer & landowner, born St. Mildred, Canterbury

Ann. O. Collard, was a neice of George Ash

George Mount married Martha Ash August 2, 1838 in St. Mildred's Cantebury, Martha was the daughter of George Ash and Ann Culmer. George and Ann also had a daughter Elizabeth b. 1815. Elizabeth married George Plomer Collard in St. Mildred's Canterbury, January 23, 1838, and daughter Louisa Harriet Ash born c. 1807, married Nelson Collard December 15, 1834, St. Mildred's Canterbury

1917 Thomas Mount Collard, Miss C. L. Edwards Brock

 

No. 4

THE FIRS

1917 Mrs. Plummer, John Plummer, Esq, Solicitor

 

No. 5

1917 P. J. Taylor

1934 Abbot Bros. (Kent) Ltd. 5 New Dover Road (established 1786)

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Barton Fields

SWARTHMORE

1917 Miss Dives

Swarthmore, New Dover Road

 

BARTON LODGE

1917 Miss Agnes Furley

 

SPELDHURST

1917 R. A. Potts, Esq.

 

No. 4

1917 Mrs. Shaxby

 

No. 5

1917 Rev. J. LE Mare Shallis (A.K.C.)

 

HINXTEN

1917 Miss Tuke

 

RANMORE

1917 F. Wacher, Esq. (M.R.C.S., L.S.A. Lond)

 

No. 8

BARTON TOWER

1917 Mrs. Frith

 

THORNDENE

1917 Col. & Mrs. Harry Parker

 

COLIGNY

1917 Miss Lefevre

 

LAURISTON

1917 Mrs. W. Lefevre

 

WILTON LODGE

1917 Rev. Hodgson, Richard Greaves M.A.

 

St. Augstines Road

 

PINECROFT

1903 - Cecil Edward Kingsford "PINECROFT", Barton Fields

*Examinations at the Incorporated Law Society. June 1878 - Final Examination. At the examination of candidates for admission on the roll of Solicitors of the supreme Court, the Examination Committee recommended the following gentlemen under the age of twenty-six, as being entitled to honorary distinction. 9. Cecil Edward Kingsford, who served his clerkship to Messrs. Wightwick, Kingsford, and Wightwick of Canterbury. The Law Times, July 27, 1878

1883 - The Law Times - Professional Partnerships Dissolved, Gazette, Jan. 4. Wightwick, Kingsford, Wightwick and Kingsford Solicitors, Canterbury: Thomas Norman Wightwick, Montague Kingsford, William Norman Wightwick and Cecil Edward Kingsford j. As regards T. N. Wightwick. Dec. 31. Debts by remaining partners.

1917 C. E. Kingsford, Esq. Miss Burridge

 

THE GROVE

1903 - Mrs. Rogers, "THE GROVE", Barton Fields

"Rev. Thomas Rogers was a vicar of Roxwell from 1884 until 1896, when ill-health compelled him to resign and remove to the Grove, Barton Fields, Canterbury. He died there in February

1917 Mrs. Rogers

 

THE GRANGE (No. 65-67)

The Ebury Hotel, formerly "THE GRANGE"

1917 Lady Dawes

Was also St. Ninians School

 

POYNINGS

1917 Mrs. Wightwick, Norman H. Wightwick, Esq. B.A.

 

ST. BRELADES

1917 H. Feilding, Esq.

 

COMBE HOUSE

1863 - George Taddy Tomlin, Esq. F.S.A. "COMBE HOUSE", Barton Fields (member of the Royal Institution of Great Britian)

1876 - George T. Tomline, Esq. F.S.A., F.R.G.S. "COMBE HOUSE", Barton Fields

1917 W. Furley, Esq.

 

THE GABLES

1917 Sir George Collard, J.P.

 

LITTLE BARTON

John Bean, Farmer

John Brent Jr. - secretary to the Kent & Canterbury ..... Investement Society

John Brent Jr. Esq., Canterbury. Subscriber to "Consuetudines Kanciae" by Charles Sandys 1851

Cecil Brent, living with John Brent

John Brent Sr. Magistrate, Alderman

John Brent, Esq., Alderman and J. P. Canterbury. Subscriber to "Consuetudines Kanciae" by Charles Sandys 1851

"Death, April 3, 1845. Louisa, wife of Mr. Charles Collard, of Wickham Court, and eldest daughter of Henry Collard, esq. of Little Barton, near Canterbury." The Gentlemen's Magazine, 1845

*Monuments of Nackington Church related to the Collard family on the Kent Archaeology website

"John Brent, jun., Esq., F.S.A., communicated some highly interesting remarks on antiquities discovered at or near Canterbury. The antiquities consisted of the following objects, which we arrange according to the localities where they were found. .... 6. (Little Barton): a skinning-knife.

Mr. Brent also exhibited a drawing of a cruciform fibula, already mentioned in our summary of the ordinary meeting of this Society, Jan. 10, and one of a gold torque found at Little Barton."

The Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Review M DCCC LXI, January to June 1861

Charles Collard, Farmer 540 acres of Land &

1917 Percy M. Collard

 

St. George's Place

 

BELSWAINES

1917 George Browning

 

MAXWELLTON

1917 Mrs. F. J. Godden

 

Footpath to Old Dover Road

 

BARTON FIELDS

 

ABBOTS BARTON (No. 36)

 

STANMORE

(there is a road now in this area called Stanmore Court)

1881 Thomas Lambert, Late Captain R.A. from Devon, Devonport "STANMORE"

1903 Capt. Thomas Lambert J.P. (late RHA) "STANMORE", Barton Fields

 

STRAVITHIE

1917 Miss Peckham

 

ELLERSLIE (No. 54)

The Youth Hostel, formerly ELLERSLIE, built in 1875

1917 Rev. A. Collett, M.A.

 

SUNBURY

1917 F. W. Furley, Esq.

*Helen Maude Haig married F. W. Furley of Canterbury in 1881, and died 1937, leaving issue.

 

St. Lawrence Road

 

ST. LAWRENCE HOUSE

1917 Headquarters of 2/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion

 

CAVENDISH

1917 Mrs. Mark James

 

Annie Purchas House

 

THE GARTH

1917 Charles Stoker

STADDON

1917 Herbert Biggleston

 

ALBERT COTTAGE

1917 Albert Piper


Births - at Barton house, Canterbury, the wife of Captain Augustus H. King, Royal Horse Artillery, a daughter. The Gentlemens Magazine 1864

 

The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter - July 12, 1873

Estate Exchange Report

At the Mart

By Messrs. Farebrother, Clarke & Co.

Canterbury - Barton Fields, freehold residence, with pleasure grounds - sold for 2,600 Pounds

 

For Sale 1907 - St. Augustine's Road, Barton Fields, Canterbury - House containing five bed and dressing rooms, bath, etc., nice conservatory and walled-in garden; £200 down and remainder on mortgage. Dean, 1, Cossington Road, Canterbury

 

Roman Antiquities under bog earth at Canterbury - Dear Sir, a large pipe drain is being laid down in Canterbury, the course of it running the whole length of the city from the houses in Barton Fields, beyond the London and Chatham Railway on the Dover Road, to the River Stour at East Bridge.

The cutting is from ten to fifteen feet deep. In one part of the inn the workmen came to a stratum of bog earth, lying at about nine feet below the pavement. On each side of the black earth, and at the same depth, remains of Roman pottery, and, apparently, Roman foundations of buildings were found. These men also dug up some ornaments for the person, and other similar things. Some of this earth I have subjected to the process of boiling in acid, and upon examining with the microscope the residue, I found various Diatomaceae, Coscinodisci Navicula, &c. The Geologist, by Samuel Joseph Mackie 1861

 

Some of the houses now


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