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Clocktower
The Plaque reads " This Clocktower was dedicated in loving memory of Charles Townsend Hook of Veles and the paperworks Snodland by his sorrowing mother and sisters. Died 11th February 1877. Loved and respected. "
The Old Firestation building
Mullberry Cottage
This was possibly a fifteenth century Hall House but records begin in 1626 when it had become the centre of a smallholding of 6-7 acres used for growing hops for beer for 200 years. Around 1700 the Manley family became residents whose graves are still visible outside All-Saints Church vestry. In 1797 John Manley died a bankrupt and the cottage was sold and divided into several dwellings one of which was occupied by his widow until her own death in 1822. Maps of 1841 show it as surrounded by fields with an oast house behind and fields in front beside what is now the Red Lion Public House.
By 1891 a blacksmith was installed together with sweet shop and chimmney sweep.
The last of the Hook family, Maude died in 1930 and the property was transferred by Townsend Hook to the Dedrick Memorial Pension Fund which had been set up following the death of the former managing director of the paper-mills William Dedrick in 1920. It was rebuilt to original condition prior to installation of the shops which involved stripping it to its timber frame. One storey was removed leaving two and the three dwellings were reduced to two also, the roof being completed around 1932.
Devonshire Rooms
All-Saints Church
Signal-box Snodland Station
Snodland Railway Station
Station Building
