All the inhabitants, not directly connected with the mill, were as far away from it as they could go.

Their houses were set back upon either acclivity which rose from the gorge that the stream had worn, dotting the hill-sides in every direction.

There was a clumsy town-hall, there were three or four churches, there was a high school and a low tavern.

It was, on the whole, a village of importance, but the great mill was somehow its soul and center.

A fair farming and grazing country stretched back from it eastward and westward, and Sevenoaks was its only home market.
It is not proposed, in this history, to tell where Sevenoaks was, and is to-day.