OLIFORD, in England, in the county of Kent, by the Darent, at the bottom of a hill. In 793 there was a battle at this place between the two Saxon kings, Osa of Mercia and Alrick of Kent, who was killed by Osa; and another in 1216, wherein the Danish king Canute was routed by King Edmund Ironside. The said Osa, to atone for the blood he had shed in that battle, first gave this place to Christ-church, Canterbury (as the deed says), in pascua porcorum, "for the support of the archbishop's hogs;" and so it remained in the archbishop's liberty, till exchanged with King Henry VIII. for other lands. There was a chantry founded at the Rychouse in this parish. The church was once a chapel to Shoreham.