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Sevenoaks Union Workhouse
The Board of Guardians meet alternate Thursdays at the Workhouse, Sundridge at
11am. The area of the Union is 66,596 acres, rateable value in 1902 £189,068
and the population in 1901 was 30,790.
Sevenoaks Union comprises the following parishes, viz:- Brasted, Chevening,
Chiddingstone, Cowden, Edenbridge, Halstead, Hever, Kemsing, Leigh, Otford,
Penshurst, Riverhead, Seal, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks Weald, Shoreham, Sundridge and
Westerham
| Chairman of the Board of Guardians |
A. T. Bevan |
| Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee |
George Frederick Carnell |
| Treasurer |
Frederick Rea |
| Relieving and Inquiry Officer No. 1 District |
W. R. Waghorne |
| Relieving and Inquiry Officer No. 2 District |
Arthur D. Pratt |
| Relieving and Inquiry Officer No. 3 District |
Robert C. Pope |
| Superintendent Registrar |
George Frederick Carnell |
The Workhouse, Birchfield, Sundridge, a building of Kentish rag, with red
brick dressings, built in 1844 to hold 381 inmates.
| George Wilson |
Workhouse Master |
| Rev. Thomas Stevens |
Chaplain |
| Mrs M. A. Wilson |
Workhouse Matron |
| Stanley E. Ward |
Medical Officer |
| Miss Mary Mitchell |
School Mistress |
SEVEN OAKS
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Union workhouse, recently erected, is large & contains from 230 - 300
inmates. John Robinson, master.
Source: Post Office 1846 - p 365
Submitted by Betty Longbottom
Page updated August 06, 2007
by Rossbret
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