Folkstone is situated on the English channel, at the distance of seventy-two miles from London. The town is placed on irregular ground; the church, which occupies the most elevated spot, standing directly on the cliff, while the other parts of the town are principally built on the acclivity of the hill. Leland, in his notice of this place, says "The, towne shore be all likelyhood is marvellously sore wasted by the violence of the sea, ynsomoche that they say one paroche church of our Lady, and another of St. Paule, is clene destroyed, and eten by the se. Hard upon the shore, yn a place cawlcd the Castle Yard, the which on the one side is diked, and therein be great ruins of a solemn old nunnery, yn the walls whereof yn divers places, appere great and long Briton brikes. The Castel Yard hath been a place of great burial. The parish church is thereby, made of sum newer work of an abbey. Ther is St. Eanswide buried, and alate thereby was the vesage of a priory." Leland also mentions the discovery of ancient coins, and other antiquities of gold and silver, at this place.

The Priory, or Nunnery, at Folkstone, is said to have been founded by Eadbald, "sixth King of Kent," at the request of Eanswide, his daughter, who became the first prioress, and was afterwards canonized. Folkstone had anciently five churches; at present it has but one. It is said that the castle was erected by Eadbald, and in 1068 rebuilt by William de Abrincis.

The market is held on Thursdays, and there is a fair on the 28th of June. Folkstone is noted for the multitude of fishing boats that belong to the harbour, which are employed in the season in catching mackerel for London; to which place they are carried by the mackerel boats of London and Barking. When the mackerel season is over, the Folkstone barks, with others from Sussex, often go away to the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts, to catch herrings for the merchants of Yarmouth and Lowestoffe.

A new harbour has been commenced at this place, which, however, meets with very considerable impediments, and is in an incomplete state. It was begun about 10 years back, and nearly 40,000l. have already been expended on the works. The pier is of rude construction, but extends a considerable way into the sea.

Dr. William Harvey, immortalized for his discovery of the circulation of the blood, was a native of Folkstone. He bequeathed 200l. for the use of the poor of this town, with which sum was built the school for gratuitous education. Sir Eliab Harvey, nephew to the doctor, endowed this establishment with a farm in the parish of Limne, and directed that 20 boys should be here instructed. The constant, though almost imperceptible, encroachments of the sea on this place, have robbed the antiquary of those curiosities naturally looked for among the ruins of a castle, four churches, and a monastery, which during the Saxon heptarchy was noted for being a seminary for princes, and in which the religious Eanswide lived and was entombed. But what the antiquary has lost the naturalist has gained, by the discovery of different strata, in which many curious exuvire, as well as pyrites, talc, Fuller's earth, and a kind of corroded sulphur, are imbedded, which accounts for those chalybeate springs that are found about this place.

About two miles westward from Folkstone, is Sandgate Castle, situated at the foot of a hill, and on the sand of the sea shore, whence it derives its name. This structure was erected by Henry TIN. from the ruins of a neighbouring castellated building, about the year 1539. The castle has been greatly altered in late years, and a large martello tower built up in the centre, to combine with other martello towers, which line this part of the coast. The village of Sandgale has considerable attractions as a watering-place, and is yearly increasing in buildings. A chapel of case has been lately erected here.

In 1760, in the parish of Newington,near Folkstone, at Milky Down, when some men were grubbing up a hedge, in order to widen the highway, they found a human skeleton, which appeared perfect except the skull, which seemed to have been fractured or much bruised. The body seemed not to have been laid at length. No remains of any hair, linen, or woollen garments, were found, nor any marks of there having been a coffin; but about the place where the neck lay, were various sorts of beads, of different sizes, shapes, and colours, all with holes through them, as if strung for a necklace, and some of them were in the shape of drops for earrings, and thought to be agate. Some of the lesser ones were pebbles, others glass, coral, or red earthenware. Near the same place two more skeletons were dug up, a few days after; with one were found some small beads, the same as with the former; but these had the appearance of having been laid in coffins, which were however quite decayed, and the handles, on moving them, crumbled away to dust.

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FOLKESTONE is a fashionable bathing place, an ancient seaport and a member of the Cinque Ports, and municipal borough, parish, head of a county court district, with a station the South Eastern and Chatham railway: it gives name to the hundred and is in the Eastern division of the county, parliamentary borough of Hythe, lathe of Shepway, Elbam petty sessional division and union, rural deanery of Elbam, archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, 6 miles south-west from Dover, 70 from London by road and 82 by railway, 15 south-east from Ashford, 41 from Tonbridge, 46 from Maidstone, 42 from Hastings, 5 from Hythe and ½ from the village of Sandgate, which is partly in this parish, and is on a point of land to the west of East Wear Bay.

By an Order of the County Council, the parish of Folkestone next Sandgate was formed in 1895 from that part of Sandgate within the Folkestone municipal borough.

Folkestone was made a member of the town and Cinque Port of Dover before the reign of Henry I. and its freemen were then styled “barons.” The town was re-incorporated by Edward III. but the corporation has since been reconstituted and for municipal purposes the borough is now divided into three wards and governed by a corporation, consisting of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 21 councillors. The borough has a commission of the peace and separate court of quarter sessions.

The old town stands on the side of a declivity and the streets, in consequence, are steep, besides being narrow and irregular: anciently it was of much greater extent and had seven Churches, its present limited dimensions being due to the encroachments of the sea.

The modern town of Folkestone, stretching westward to Sandgate, is laid out with great regularity on the top of the cliffs, 133 feet high, protected from north winds by a range of hills, of which the” Castle” and the “Sugar-loaf” are the most conspicuous, and the streets have been planted with trees: the sea front to the edge of the cliffs is occupied by a wide and delightful promenade laid with turf, called the “Lees,” which affords a splendid view of the English Channel to the French coast: access to the beach is obtained by inclined roads, footpaths and steps, together with hydraulic lifts down the face of the cliffs, which are clothed with verdure; pathways have been constructed, sheltered by the cliffs, along the base of which is a road by the sea to Sandgate. A shelter was constructed in 1894, chiefly at the expense of Lord Radnor.

The Folkestone Lift Company Limited, formed in 1885, erected two lines of rails in that year, from the Lees to the beach, near the Pier, and in 1890 constructed two other lines: the cars are worked by hydraulics, the base of one car being filled with water and in its descent raising another: the average number of passenger per year has reached over 500,000.

The Sandgate Hill Lift Company limited, formed in 1890, has constructed two lines of rails from the Martello tower at the top of Sandgate plain to the Upper Folkestone road, near Endcliffe House; the cars are worked by hydraulic power, and the average number of passengers is over 200,000.

The Victoria Pier, erected in 1888, has a promenade, 680 feet long by 32 wide, the headway being 115 by 160 feet and 16 feet above high water mark: at the entrance are gardens, charmingly laid out and furnished with two kiosks and rustic seats: there is also a pavilion, used as a theatre and capable of holding 900 persons; adjoining is a switch-back railway.

The town is an important, station on the route from London to Boulogne and is a considerable port for the mackerel and herring fishery.

The value of the principal articles imported in 1901 was:-cotton goods, £321,358; feathers, £215,016; artificial flowers, £203,287; lace, £22,304; linen, £16,545; silk goods, £4,163,453; thrown and spin silk yarn, £253,340; woollen goods, £1,293,664; woollen yarn, £42,931; boots and shoes, £56,375; leather, £554,519; leather gloves, £255,057; skins and furs, £261,345; hardware, £40,587; manufactured iron, £24,712; machinery and mill work, £42,269; paper, including straw board &c. £72,302; cherries, £71,015; plums, £57,600; poultry and game, £60,533; refined sugar, £50,261; potatoes, £38,149; raw vegetables, £80,149; wine, £268,5365 total value of all articles, £10,915,869.

The value of the principal articles of British and Irish produce exported in 1901 was:-horses, £81,455; skins and furs, £222,178; cotton goods, £35,145.; woollen, and worsted piece goods, £139,013; biscuits and bread, £82,474; fish, £40,838; wrought and unwroilght leather, £33,491; total value, £1,001,095, The value, of the principal articles of Foreign and Colonial merchandise exported in 1901 was:-furs, £208,125; manufactured skins and furs, £55,631; sheep or lambs’ wool, £348,169; raw silk, £104,534; silk or satin broad stuff, £69,327; ornamental feathers, £32,981; bacon, £30,112; total value of all articles, £958,657.

The number of British and Foreign sailing, and steam vessels entering the port with cargoes and, in ballast in 1901 was 1,386 with a tonnage of 314,598, and cleared, 1,354 of 306,479 tons. In the general coasting trade 740 entered of 84,185 tonnage, and 749 cleared of 87,343 tons. The number of vessels registered under Part I. of the “Merchant Shipping Act, 1894” as belonging to the port on December 31, 1901, was 228, of 18,293 tons. The number of fishing boats registered under Part. IV. of the same Act on December 31, 1901, was 84; employing 257 men and boys.

On Nov. 9, 1881, the Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury, acting tinder the authority of the “Customs Consolidation Act, 1876” (39 and 40 Vict. c. 36), appointed Folkestone on and after January 1st, 1882, to be and continue a port, its limits commencing at Copt Point, being the western limit of the port of Dover, and extending westward along the coasts of Kent and Sussex to the point of the headland called Galley Hill, on the coast of Sussex, being the eastward limit of the port of Newhaven.

The harbour is 14 acres in extent, with an entrance 123 feet wide, and the “South Eastern Railway (Various Powers) Act, 1885,” gives power to make improvements, corresponding ultimately with those undertaken by the French Government at Boulogne; the coast here is exposed to the full force of the south-west winds, and further harbour accommodation is desirable; the present landing-pier, originally 150 feet in length was extended in 1883 to 300 ft.: a further 500 ft. is now (1902) being added: this pier enables trains to Set down their passengers and bring luggage and merchandise alongside the steamers and has a lower deck for smaller craft.

Connected with the harbour are the Custom House buildings, erected by the railway company in 1854. The amount of customs revenue received in 1901 was £61,392.

The South Eastern and Chatham railway has four stations here, viz.: the Junction station north of the town, the Shorncliffe and Central stations and the Harbour station. The Central station is that generally used for visitors to the town; the Harbour station is principally for the continental traffic, the rails being carried over the inner harbour by a swing bridge to the pier; the line, before reaching the town, passes over the Foord Valley on a viaduct of 19 arches, 750 feet long and nearly 100 feet in height.

The Elham Valley railway, which affords direct communication with Canterbury, was opened in 1891.

The Folkestone and Dover line of the South Eastern and Chatham railway, connecting those towns, passes through the chalk by the Martello tunnel, 766 yards in length; the Warren cutting in the cliffs, 2 miles long, is succeeded by the Abbot’s cliff tunnel of 1,940 yards, and at a great depth from the surface, after which the line is carried close to the sea on a sea wall constructed of the chalk; and thence to another tunnel of 1,331 yards through Shakespeare’s Cliff.

The town is well supplied with water by a company incorporated under an Act of Parliament, and having works and reservoirs at Cherry Gardens and at Lower Standen, about 2 ½ miles from Folkestone, and is drained in accordance with a scheme prepared by the late Joseph Bazalgette C.B. and partly lighted with gas supplied from works near the Viaduct, and partly by electric light from a station opened by a company in November, 1898.

The parish church of SS, Mary and Eanswythe, standing prominently near the edge of a cliff overlooking the harbour, was founded in 1137 by Nigel de Mundeville, and is a cruciform building of Kentish rag, chiefly in the Early English style with later insertions, and has a central tower of Perpendicular date containing a clock and 8 bells: there is a fine altar-tomb, with effigy, several stained windows, and a brass: the remains of St. Eanswythe, the patron saint of Folkestone, daughter of Eadbald, King of Kent (616—40), were found in the north wall inclosed in a leaden reliquary of the 12th century: the church was restored in 1870, and later, at a cost of £10,000, and affords 1,200 sittings: in the churchyard is the base of an ancient cross, restored in Sept. 1897, and near it stands a modern column supporting a sundial. The register dates from the year 1635. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £570, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Erskine William Knollys M.A. of Brasenose College Oxford, and surrogate.

Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1851: the church, consecrated 27th July, 1850, is of Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings, in a plain Gothic style, and has a tower containing one bell: the church has been several times enlarged, and affords 1,200 sittings, 450 being free. The register dates from the year 1851. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £500, in the gift of the Earl of Radnor, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Henry Legh Richmond Deck M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge.

Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1868: the church, partially erected in 1868, and completed in 1689, is a cruciform edifice, of Tag stone, with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style, and has a central octagonal tower, with spire containing one bell: there are 750 sittings, 250 being free. The register dates from the year 1869. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £500, in the gift of the Earl of Radnor, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Frederick Charles Woodhouse M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge hon. canon of Canterbury, rural dean of Elham and surrogate.

St. Johan the Baptist's FOORD, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed August 28, 1883, from that of Christ Church: the churchy formerly a chapel of ease, was consecrated 21 Oct. 1879, and is of Kentish Tag with Bath stone dressings, an the Decorated and Perpendicular styles: the cost was about £4,000: there are 470 sittings, 200 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1883. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £ 116, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Christ Church, and held since 1901 by the. Rev. Arthur Edward Low M.A. of Clara College, Cambridge.

The church of St. Michael and All Angels, built in 1873 at a cost of £4,000, is of red brick, in the Flamboyant style, and has a tower with spire, containing 8 tubular bells: there are several stained windows; the church has been, enlarged at a cost of about £9,000, and affords 900 sittings. The register dates from the year 1873. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £300, in the gift of Kebla College, Oxford, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Edward Husband, of St. Aidans. Connected with this church is a” Working Boys’ Club.”

St. Peter’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed November 13, 1868: the church, erected in 1855, is of Kentish ragstone, in the Early English style, and has a turret containing one bell; several of the windows are stained: the church, was enlarged in 1869. and a porch added in 1882, and it now affords 350 sittings. The register dates from the year 1869 The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £106, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1868 by the Rev. Charles Joseph Ridsdala BA. of Caius College, Cambridge.

St. Saviour's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed August 21, 1885, from the parishes of St. Mary and St.; Michael and All Angels: the church, in Canterbury road, was opened in June, 1892, but is still incomplete. The register dates from the year 1882. The living is an incumbency, gross yearly value £150, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held since 1,887 by the Rev, Alfred Glennie Day M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford.

Emmanuel proprietary church, in the Cheriton road, will seat about 300 persons; minister since 1902, Rev. Frdk. Bickford Heard M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge; it is wholly supported by freewill offerings and pew rents.

The Catholic church in Guildhall street, dedicated to our Lady Help of Christians, and St. Aloysius, was erected in 1889 at a cost of about £6,000, and is of local brick with Bath stone dressings, in the Early Gothic style: there are about 750 sittings: attached to the church is a presbytery.

There are also Congregational, Baptist, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and a meeting house for the Society of Friends; the Congregational hall, in Canterbury road, was built in 1893.

The Brad stone Hall, erected in 1879, is now the property of the Salvation Army, and has 700 sittings.

Folkestone cemetery, in the Cheriton road, near Shorncliffe station was opened in 1858, and extended in 1891 by 3 ¾ acres, the total area being now nearly 13 acres; it has two mortuary chapels, and is under the control of a joint committee of the Corporation, the Urban District Council of Sandgate and the Parish Council of Hawkinge. In 1881 a monument was erected here by the German government in memory of about 200 of the crew of the “Grosser Kurfurst,” which foundered off Folkestone, May, 1878, more than 100 of the bodies recovered having been interred here. A mortuary was added in 1901.

The Convent of the Faithful Virgin, in Dover street, was founded in 1875, for the purpose of affording higher education for delicate (but not unhealthy) children. The Town Hall, erected in 1860, on the site of the former hall, is in the Italian style, and has an illuminated striking clock: the large hall is about 80 feet by 50 feet and will hold 700 persons; there are also council, magistrates’, committee and other rooms in the building and a police station with five cells.

The Folkestone Masoriic Hall and club, in Grace hill, was erected in 1888: the lodge room is sometimes used for public meetings and will hold 300 persons. The Radnor Lodge 2,587 meets on the 3rd Wed. from Oct. to April, hon. sec. A.H. Gardner esq. 8-a, Cheriton gardens; other lodges also meet here.

The National Provincial Bank of England, the London City and Midland Bank Lim, and Lloyds Bank Limited have each a branch in Sandgate road, the Capital and Counties Bank Limited has a branch in Church street, and there is a Savings Bank at 22 Cheriton place, under the management of government trustees.

In 1891 a lifeboat was presented to the town by Miss Curling, at a cost of £800, and subscriptions amounting to about £700 were afterwards given for providing a boat house, fittings, &c.; the boat, by the wish of the donor, is named the J. McConnel Hussey.”

Folkestone is the head quarters of No. 4 Company, 1st Cinque Ports Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers).

The Radnor Club is in Sandgate road, admission is by ballot, except in the case of temporary members, such as officers of the army and navy quartered in Kent, and visitors introduced by two permanent members.

The Public Free Library and Museum, Grace hill, erected at a cost of £5,000 and opened 11 April, 1888, is an edifice of brick in the Queen Anne style and contains a library and museum. The lending and reference libraries contain about 12,000 volumes.

The Folkestone Working Boys’ Club was established in 1873 by the Rev. E. Husband, vicar of St. Michael’s, and is supported by voluntary contributions: it numbers about 200 members; there is also a skating rink, the gift of the late Sir Edward Watkin bart. M.P.

The Harveian Institute, in the Bayle, was opened in 1891, as an educational and recreation club for young men.

The Young Men’s Christian Association occupies premises’ in Church street, and the Young Women’s Christian Association has premises in Oxford terrace.

The Royal Pavilion Hotel, which faces the sea in a sheltered position, has an extensive Winter garden, and is close to the steamboat and promenade piers and the Undercliffe.

The Hotel Metropole, opened in 1896, occupies a fine position on the Lees, and stands within its own grounds of 2 ½ acres, upwards of 300 feet above the sea level: it comprises fine dining halls and ball, banqueting and billiard rooms, besides suites of private apartments &c, and is available for 450 visitors.

The Queen’s Hotel, in the centre of the town, was erected in 1884 at a cost of £25,000. The Lees hotel is near the Lees.

The Lees Pavilion, erected in 1902 at a cost of £7,000, is a structure of terra Cotta and brick, with accommodation for 1,000 persons.

The Post Office in the Sandgate road was erected in 1886 by H.M. Government, and is of red brick with stone dressings in a modern Elizabethan style.

The Bathing Establishment, situated at the base of the cliff beneath the Lees, and erected in 1869, includes a large swimming and plunge bath with every description of medicated and invalid baths; there are also assembly rooms and billiard and refreshment rooms, besides a large saloon used for balls and concerts and as a general lounge. On the beach and in connection with this establishment, is a patent bathing carriage, containing 100 cabins.

The Corporation Baths, in Foord road, were erected in 1898, at a cost of about £4,500, and contain 16 men and to women’s private baths.

The Turkish Baths, Ingles road, were erected by a Limited Company, and opened in Dec. 1895.

The Victoria hospital, north-east of the town, and facing Radnor park, was erected 1889—90 at a dost of upwards of £7,300, and is a building of red brick with Bath stone dressings, from designs by Mr. Joseph Gardner, architect; it contains 50 beds, a dispensary, and consulting and operating rooms; a new wing was added in 1900 at a cost of £6,000, in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. During the year 1901 there were 1,621 out-patients under treatment. The number of in-patients was 419. Of these 43 died, 337 received benefit, and 39 were in the hospital on the 31st December, 1901. The hospital is managed by a committee of 18 gentlemen.

Folkestone Homoeopathic Dispensary, on the Parade, was established in 1890, the number of patients treated in the year ending March 31st, 1900, was 482.

The Sanatorium for infectious diseases (small pox excepted), erected in 1877, at a cost of about £2,000, on the East Cliff, contains 7 wards, with 24 beds and dedetached offices. New wards for typhoid and diptheria, administrative blocks, and a mortuary and laundry were, erected in 1898 at a cost exceeding £6,000, and will provide 12 additional beds. There is also a small-pox hospital, built under the hills about a mile from the town and containing 4 beds.

St. Gabriel’s House of Rest for Gentlewomen, in Lennard road, founded in 1885. is three minutes’ walk from Folkestone Junction station and within a short distance from the sea. The home is open to gentlewomen only who desire rest, change of air and pleasant society; expenses are most moderate and the S. E. and G. R. Co. grant monthly return tickets at 5s. from all their London stations. All communications should be addressed to the Sister Superior.

The Friends’ Convalescent Home, established in the spring of 1885 for patients of both sexes, is in Folly road, a few minutes’ walk from the Downs, and within a short distance of Folkestone Junction Station. The home is entirely unsectarian, and patients are admitted on payment of 10s. per week for adults and 3s. 6d. per week for children. Special arrangements have been made with the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company for the transit of patients. The home is managed by a committee of five gentlemen and twelve ladies belonging to the Society of Friends; the number of patients admitted in 1897 was 434. Offices: Friends’ Institute, Bishopsgate street without E C.

St. Andrew’s Convalescent Home, East Cliff, was founded in 1875, for invalids of both sexes, and enlarged in 1882-3 at a cost of £17,000. Patients are admitted free on a subscriber's recommendation or by weekly payment; no restriction is imposed as to distance or religious opinions. The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company grant monthly return tickets at 5s. from all their London stations.

The London Medical Mission Convalescent Home at Netley cottage, Claremont road, was established in 1876; admission is obtained by subscriber’s ticket or payment.

St. Mary’s Orphanage in Wearbay road, established in 1398, is for the training of girls for domestic service.

The endowed charities are numerous and amount to £700 yearly.

The Tercentenary memorial to Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, is on the Leas, and consists of a bronze statue of Harvey, on a granite pedestal, erected in 1881. The total cost was about £2,000.

Radnor Park, north-west of the town, covers an area of 20 acres, laid out by the Corporation at a cost of about £5,000 and was opened in 1886.

Folkestone Race Course Co. Lim. formed in 1899, has laid out a course at Westenhanger, about 5 miles from the town on the main line of the S. E. and C. R.; flat racing and steeplechase meetings are both held.

Folkestone pleasure gardens, near the Shorncliffe station, contain the buildings used for exhibition purposes, consisting of a lofty central hall, 70 feet wide and 210 feet long, with galleries, and on each side a tower about 70 feet in height; part of the building has been converted into a theatre holding 700 persons, and other portions include a large gymnasium; in the grounds are lawn tennis courts and a skating rink.

The Benedictine priory or nunnery of SS. Mary and Eanswythe was originally founded in 630 by Eadbald, King of Kent, and the Princess St. Eanswythe, his daughter, who was its first prioress and was buried here; it was destroyed by the Danes in the time of Athelstan and refounded by Nigel de Mundeville.

Many curious fossil remains are found near Folkestone; also pyrites, talc and fullers’ earth To the north of the town are Castle hill, Sugar Loaf hill and Folkestone hill, the latter 575 feet high. The Romans had a tower here on the bill, of which the earthworks remain.

To the east of the town is the locality known as the Warren, composed of boulders and verdure between the cliffs and the shore of East Wear bay.

Folkestone gives the title of Viscount to the Bouverie family, of which the head is the Earl of Radnor, lord of the manor and chief landowner.

The population of the municipal borough in 1871 was 12,951; in 1881, 18,986; in 1891 was 23,005, and in 1901, 30,650, viz.:-East Ward, 8,769; North Ward, 10,518, and West Ward, 11,363.

The area of Folkestone civil parish is 2,359 acres of land, 6 of water and 101 of foreshore; rateable value, £246,164; the population in 1881 was 19,297; 1891, 23,894, and in 1901, 30,379, including 157 in St. Andrew’s Convalescent Home and 45 in the Victoria Hospital and 170 on board vessels.

The population of Folkestone Urban Sanitary District in 1901 was 30,379.

The population of the ecclesiastical parishes in 1901 was:-SS. Mary and Eanswythe (parish church), 4,566; Christ Church, 5,551; Holy Trinity, 3,115; St. John the Baptist’s, Foord, 3,668; St. Michael’s and All Angels, 4,013; St. Peter’s, 3,243; St. Saviour’s, 6,191.

Coolinge is 1 mile west; Broadmead, 1 mile north-west; and Holy Well, 2 miles north-west.

Rainden, 3 miles north-west, was incorporated with the parish of Folkestone by order of quarter sessions, 3rd July, 1866.

Uphill Hamlet now forms part of Hawkinge, having been added to it by Local Government Board Order 19,008, dated March 25, 1886, at the same date and by the same Order, that part of Folkestone parish in the municipal borough was added to Folkestone Town parish and amalgamated as one parish called Folkestone.

PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services

SS. Mary & Eanswythe (Parish) Church, Rev.Erskine Wm. Knollys M.A. vicar; Rev. Charles Stuart Macdonald Playfair M.A. curate; Alfred Philpott, 13 Goolinge rd. parish clerk; 7, 8 & 10.45 a.m.; 3, 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; daily 8 & 10 a.m. & 5 p.m.

Christ Church. Sandgate road, Rev. Henry Legh Richmond Deck M.A. vicar; Rev. Charles Stonehouse M.A. curate; 8 & 11 a.m. & 2.30, 3.45 & 6.30 p.m. thurs. 7 p.m.; mon. tues. & fri. 5.30 p.m.; wed. 12 noon.

Holy Trinity Church, Sandgate road, Rev. Canon Fredk. Charles Woodhouse M.A. vicar; Rev. Edward James Hampson M.A. cutate; 8 & 11 a.m. & 3.45 & 6.30 p.m.; wed. & fri. 11 a.m..; daily 4.30 p.m. during winter months & 6 p.m. during the summer months.

St. John Baptist, Foord, Rev. Arthur Edward Low M.A. vicar; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.

St. Michael & All Angels Church, Dover road, Rev. Edwd. Husband, vicar; 8, 11 a.m.. & 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; daily (except mon. & sat.), at 8 a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; 1st sunday in the month sunday afternoon for the people at 3 p.m.

St. Peter’s Church, The Durlocks, Rev. Charles Joseph Ridsdale B.A. incumbent; 8, 10.30 & 11.15 a.m.; 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 7.45 a.m. & tues. & thurs. 7 p.m.

St. Saviour, Canterbury road, Rev. Alfred Glennie Day M.A. incumbent; 7.15 & 11 a.m.; 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; daily 7.30 a.m. & 7.45 p.m.

Emmanuel Proprietary Church, Cheriton rd. Rev. Frdk. Bickford Heard M.A.; 11 a.m.. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m.

St. Augustine Mission, Millbay, High street; 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.; thurs. 8 p.m.

Our Lady Help of Christian & St. Aloysius (Catholic), Guildhall street, Rev. Thomas Bernard Scannell B.D. priest; 8.30 & 11 a.m.; 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; daily 8 a.m.

Friends’ Meeting House, Dover street; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sat. 8.30 p.m.

Baptist, Rendezvous street, Rev. John Charles Carlisle; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; mon. & wed. 7 p.m.

Baptist (Ebenezer), Rossendale road, Rev. John Maxted; 11 a.m. 6.30 p.m.; mon. & thurs. 7.30 p.m.; tues. 6.30 p.m.; will seat 300, all free.

Baptist (Zion), St. Michael’s street; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m.

Congregational, Radnor park, Rev. Alfred Jabez Palmer; Rev. Ernest Bristow, assistant; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m.

Congregational, Tontine st. Rev. Alfred Jabez Palmer; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Dover street (Dover & Deal Circuit), Rev. George W. Wellburn B.A.; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan, Grace hill; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m.

Wesleyan Mission, Canterbury road; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; mon. & wed. 7 p.m.; seats 250.

Mission Hall, Guildhall st.; sun. 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m.

Railway Mission Hall, St. John’s street; sun. 7 p.m.; thurs. 8 p.m.

Elise Evangelique Fran Caise Mission Hall, Victoria Grove, Guildhall street, Le Dimanche, a six heures in quart du soir, service fait par Mons. Em. Christen, pasteur francaise a Canterbury.

SCHOOLS

Free Grammar, Foord road, founded in 1674 by Sir Eliab Harvey: the school was rebuilt in 1882 in the Elizabethan style, from the designs of Mr. R. Wheeler: the building is intended for about 150 pupils, of whom 10 are admitted free: provision is made for the reception of 20 boarders. The school, formerly governed by an Act of Parliament, 21 & 22 Vict. c. xx, is now administered under the scheme of the Charity Commissioners, approved by the Privy Council, 26 June, 1886. The governing body consists of 12 persons, one (the Mayor of Folkestone) being ex-officio, 6 representative & 5 co-optative. The income is about £40 a year; Dr. Harvey, a native of Folkestone, contributed by will £200 to this school, which, under the new schema, has attached to it 10 foundation scholarships, each entitling the holder to exemption from the payment of tuition fees.

Kent College for girls, near the Leas, was erected in 1886 at a cost of £5,000, under the auspices of the Kent Wesleyan Methodist School Association Limited, & is a structure of red brick from designs by Messrs. Ruck. Sons & Smith architects, of Maidstone; arranged for 70 boarders & 50 day scholars.

Technical Schools, Grace hill, erected at a cost of over £6,000, & opened. November, 1896.

A School Board of 9 members was formed 7 Aug. 1882, for the borough of Folkestone; Alfred Henry Gardner, solicitor, 8-a, Cheriton place, clerk to the board; Richard Colegate, 1 Sussex road & William Falconer, Grove road, attendance officers.

Board School, Black Bull road, erected 7 Aug. 1884, at a cost of £5,360, & opened January, 1886, for 700 children; average attendance, 196 boys, 176 girls & 265 infants.

Board School, Dover road, erected in 1886, at a cost of £4,607; for 824 children; average attendance, 312 boys, 250 girls & 260 infants.

Board School, Sydney street, built in 1897, for 270 boys, 200 girls & 330 infants; average attendance, 250 boys, 180 girls & 320 infants.

Christ Church National (mixed), Bouverie road, for 350 children; average attendance, 197 boys & girls & 83 infants.

St. Mary’s Higher Grade, Dover road, erected in 1855 for 575 children; average attendance, 200 boys, 170 girls & 125 infants.

St. Eanswythe’s (girls & infants), The Bayle, for 143 children; average attendance, 121.

St. Peter’s, East cliff, built in 1872, for 332 children; average attendance, 95 boys, 87 girls & 111 infants.

Catholic, Cheriton road, built in 1884, for 94 children; average attendance, 70.

Wesleyan (boys, girls & infants), Grace hill, opened in 1871, for 210 boys & girls & 109 infants; average attendance, 197 boys & girls & 103 infants.