Catalogue description Sutton-at-Hone and Horton Kirby

Highway called Frog Lane, leading from turnpike road near Sutton Almshouses in town of Sutton-at-Hone to river Darenth at South Darenth in Sutton-at-Hone and Horton Kirby, 111 rods [610½ yards] long, being so narrow that a horse cannot pass a waggon, and 63 rods [346½ yards] thereof at the river end being full of springs and much overflowed with water, on application of Surveyors of Horton Kirby and Sutton-at-Hone, as to first 48 rods [264 yards] thereof from the turnpike road, being wholly in Sutton-at-Hone, to be widened so far as possible, and as to remaining 63 rods [346½ yards], of which 55 rods [302½ yards] are in Sutton-at Hone and 8 rods [44 yards] in Horton Kirby, to be diverted to new line through lands of Henry Mason, Jeremiah Abbott, Thomas Williams, and Elizabeth Muggeridge on north side of the highway, to the river Darenth, 18 to 30 feet wide.

[The papers concerning this diversion are missing.]

Order: 19 July 1775.

Enrolled in the Order Book [Q/SO.W11.p.139].