22. Such a doubt might be accounted for by the fact that the boundary between the two parishes passed through the hamlet of Fawkham Green.

23. See G.M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1944), 552-6.

24. The particulars given regarding Mr George Day derive in part from a typescript entitled. ‘Before

New Ash Green’, prepared by the Fawkham and Ash Archaeological Group, and in part from newspaper cuttings preserved in DCL, including, especially, one of an article on Ash and Ridley in the Kentish Times of 10th February 1939. The present writer well remembers reading that article when it was first published, which is perhaps sufficient indication that it is high time that he brought this work to its end.