1851 Post Office Directory

Sutton at Hone is a respectable village, 3 miles from Dartford and 7 south west from Gravesend, on the west side of the river Darent, in Dartford Union, with a neat and ancient church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The living is a vicarage; the Rev. John Hotham, vicar. It gives name to the lathe of Sutton at Hone. There are two places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents. The area of the parish is 4,040 acres, soil, loam with gravel; there is about 400 acres of woodland. Miss Mumford is lady of the manor, and the population of the whole parish, in 1841, was 1,128 of which Sutton contains 504. In 1842 the Property Tax assessment was £5,607. In the village is a National school for boys and girls. Hawley and Swanley and hamlets.

Gentry
Mumford Campbell, esq., Hawley
Ferdinand F. Camroux, esq., Hawley
Misses Clayton
William Thomas Elgar, esq.
Henry Hall, esq, Hill Cottage
Rev. John Hotham, M.A. (vicar)
Mrs Mumford
Mrs Nevill
Richard Ray, esq, Swanley
Richard Saunders, esq, Hawley
Mr Henry Staples, Swanley
Capt. George Stone, R.N., Hawley

Traders
William Acton, wheelwright
Mrs Patience Andruss, farmer & fruit grower
William Barham, plumber
William Bills, beer retailer
Stephen Brice, Bull Inn & fruit grower, Hawley
John Cooper, farmer
William Cooper, farmer, Gilder Hill
George Creasey, shopkeeper
Thomas Elgar, farmer
Wm Geo Glover, “Red Lion”, Swanley
Charles Hammond, shopkeeper, Swanley
James Harber, blacksmith
Wm Hogg, famer, Cold Harbour
William Lane, baker
James Friend Medhurst, butcher
John Mills, beer retailer, Swanley
Thomas Nevill, farmer
George Packman, bricklayer & plasterer
Thomas Packman, “Ship”
William Page, beer retailer
John Read, carrier
Misses Hannah & Martha Squire, milliners
Thomas Staples, farmer, Swanley
William Staples, famer, Swanley
Henry Sydell, tailor
Samuel Tapsfield, baker & shopkeeper
William Tebay, wheelwright
Aaron Turner, carpenter, Swanley
Frederick Turner, “Woodman”, Swanley
William Viner, bootmaker
William Whitehead, fruit grower
William Wiggins, paper manufacturer, Hawley mills

Post Office – Mrs Susannah Squire, receiver. Letters arrive from Dartford at ½ past 7am; dispateched at ½ past 6pm.
National School – Elias Ball Johnson, master; Mrs Charlotte Johnson, mistress
Carrier to London – Read, twice a week, days and times uncertain