Lynsted with Kingsdown Society

Directories

The content of "Directories" (below) vary significantly in their detail and coverage. Taken together they paint a fascinating picture. The advert to the right comes from an 1838 Directory.

• Those that are purely descriptive of places are often called "gazettes".
• Those that include lists of people and commercial premises are more properly "directories".
• Just to complicate matters, "directories" often include a summary "gazette" entry describing key elements about the community - postal times, churches, notable people and roles, etc.

These documents often give intriguing insights into changes in commercial activity - for our communities, these were primarily located in Greenstreet (taking in both sides of the toll road). For most of recorded history, Greenstreet has existed as a distinct community - for that reason, where available, we include both sides of Greenstreet (ignoring the administrative dotted line down the middle of London Road.

• 1791 Universal Directory
• 1832 to 1834 Pigot Directory
• 1838 Stapleton Directory
• 1847 Bagshaw's Directory
• 1858 Melville Directory
• 1868 National Gazetteer
• 1882 Kelly's Directory
• 1891 Kelly's Directory
• 1903 to 1904 Milton-next-Sittingbourne Union Directory
• 1908 to 1909 Gazetteer Lynsted and Greenstreet
• 1911 Kelly's Directory
• 1913 Kelly's Directory
• 1914 Kelly's Directory
• 1918 Kelly's Directory
• 1922 Kellys Directory
• 1926 Sittingbourne, Milton and District Directory