occupier of North Ash and Old House Farms.
   The one hundred and thirty acres that went with New Terry’s Lodge were farmed by a Mr Clark, who seems to have taken over from its owner a few years previously. He remained only another two years and was followed by a succession of transitory tenants. Clark was presumably a relative of a Mrs Clark, an indefatigeable lady who, although not a major tenant farmer, deserves honourable mention in that context; she was coping with eighty-five widely scattered acres - the thirty-one acres of Horns Lodge, the property of a Mr Collens, or Collins, the twenty-eight acres of Mr Nicholas Hubble’s Berries Maple Farm and twenty-six acres belonging to Mr P. Skudder in the vicinity of Ash Street.
   That other perambulating farmer, Joseph Oliver, just topped the hundred-acre mark with the Tasker land  near Billet Hill, Mr Lance’s Oliver’s Mill Field and the home territory of Oliver’s Farm, held from Messrs Elgar & Co. (who figure elsewhere as William Child or Childs and Mr Elgar). Yet another port of call for Joseph Oliver was his own little hop garden in North Ash road.
   Finally. as to the larger farmers, there was the holding at West Yoke of that Samuel Tiesdell who was to meet

an unhappy fate in a nearby pond. He had not long since taken over the farm, of which one hundred and fourteen acres were in Ash.
   Amongst the little farms or smallholdings was Upper Gooses, which was on the Wrotham road, a short way  to the north of the Revd. Charles Whitehead’s Down House; it seems to have been a predecessor of the modern Bonny Acre Farm. Upper Gooses, with twenty-three acres, belonged to a Mr Tisedell Fulkham, or Faulkham, and was let to Thomas Wellard. In part a neighbour of Upper Gooses was Lower Yard Farm, owned by a Mrs Brown and let to a Mr Buggs, which was strangely scattered in the Hodsoll Street, Rosemary Lane and Pettings area. The eighteen acres of this Lower Yard Farm are not to be confused with the even more modest eleven acres of the Lower Yard Farm which was let to Henry Thorpe; that belonged to a Mr Shuckford.
   On Haven Hill were several small properties in divers ownerships and occupations. The largest was a smallholding of fifteen acres on the east side of the road, described as ‘At the Haven’ and somewhat improbably let by a Mr Jelly to a John Jeal. Theirs, nevertheless, was a stable relationship and had existed since at least 1780.