/2 -‘ CA: L.) 1/V661‘! BRIDGE Bridge is a parish and head of a union, giving its name to a rural deanery; it derives its name from its situation in a valley on the Roman and modern road to Dover, at a bridge over a feeder of the Stour, with a station on the Canterbury and Folkestone line of the Southern railway, and is 11:1 miles South from Bekesbournel station on the same system, and 3 south east from Canterbury, in the Canterbury division of the county, lathe of St. Augustine, hundred of Bridge and Petham, petty sessional division of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, county court district of Canterbury, rural deanery of East Bridge and archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury. The Village is lighted with gas by a local limited company. The church of St. Peter is of flint, in the Norman style, with some additions of the Early English period, and has a tower with spire, containing a clock and 4 bells; the windows are stained; within a recess is a recumbent effigy of a man in robes, in low relief; the church was repaired and partly rebuilt about 1860, and affords 350 sittings, 80 being free. The register dates from the year 1565. The living_is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Patrixbourne, joint net yearly value D330~ W111‘ 38 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Marquess Conyngham, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Hubert Knight M. A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who resides at Patrixbourne. A war memorial was erected in 1920 by public subscription in the north-east of the churchyard, to the memory of 13 men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1894, is of corrugated iron and wood, and seats 150 persons. The principal landowners are the Marquess Conyngham, who is lord of the manor, Earl Sondes and the Hon. Mrs. Matthew Bell. The soil is chalky; subsoil, chalk. The _chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and hops. The area is 1,171 acres; rateable value, D3985? the Populauon 1“ 1921 W35 699. Post, M.O., T. &T.E.D.Office. - Richard Castle, sub- postmaster. Letters through Canterbury. Bridge fire Brigade: engine house, Plough 8: Harrow P.H.; consists of a motor engine 8: trailer 81 about 1,200 feet of hose; Charles Eills, 1t. 81 sec; number of men 10. Assistant Overseer 81 Clerk to the Parish Council, Ernest G.Wood A.L.A.A. 21 Burgate Street, Canterbury. BRIDGE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. The parishes in the District are the same as form the Union Council meets at the Guardians‘ Board room, Bridge, the third thursday in each month at 1 1 o' clock. Chairman, Spencer William Mount, Patrixbourne. Officials Clerk, Lionel James Williams, Bridge Treasurer, Richard Henry Newman, Lloyds Bank Ltd. (C. 8: C. branch, Canterbury.) Medical Officer of Health, Whitstable Road, Canterbury. Building Surveyor, Highway Surveyour, Sanitory Inspector, James John Day O.B.E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.. D.P.H., 52 Herbert Keswick Blundell, Bridge. Septimus Sladden, Littlebourne. Herbert Keswick Blundell, Bridge. BRIDGE UNION Board day, the third Thursday in each month at the Board room at the Poor Law Institution, Bridge, at 12 noon. The Assessment Committee meets on the first Saturday in each month at 21 Burgate Street, Canterbury, at 2 p.m. The Union comprises the following parishes, viz:- Adisham, Barham, Bekesbourne, Bishopsbourne, Bridge, Chartham, Fordwich, Harbledown, Ickham, Kingston, Littlebourne, Lower Hardres, Milton, Nackington, Patrixbourne, Petham, St. Nicholas Hospital, Stodmarsh, Thanington V\/ithout, Upper Hardres, Waltham, Wicl