ORTFORD, in England, in the county of Kent, by the Dart, at the bottom of a hill. In 793 there was a battle at this place, between the two Saxon kings, Offa of Mercia and Alrick of Kent, who was killed by Offa; and another in 1016, wherein the Danish king Canute was routed by King Edmund Ironside. The said Offa, to stave for the blood he had shed in that battle, first gave this place to Christ-church, Canterbury (as the deed says) in paceua 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.