15. Hasted II, 434, III, 351; Harrod’s Directory (1867), 804.

16. Hop ground areas are here given to the nearest half-acre.

17. See Dr David Harvey’s paper, Fruit Growing in Kent in the Nineteenth Century, in AC LXXIX, 95 ff.

18. J.K. Wallenberg, Kentish Place-Names (1931),
243-4, tentatively suggests that the name hredles stede 

in the Saxon charter considered ibid. at 241 ff ‘may be retraced in Redsteadle Wood’ in Ash.

19. ‘Jack’ was commonly used in field names to denote an unused piece of land: John Field, English Field Names (1972), 271.

20. Tom Croft might perhaps have been a piece of common pasture, subsequently enclosed as to ‘Tom’, see Field, op. cit., 235.