WHITSTABLE, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of the same name, and in the lathe of St Augustine, sixty miles from London. It is the chief port from whence the trade of Canterbury is conducted, being seven
mill from that city. The chief articles conveyed by it to London are corn and hops, and the produce of an oyster-fishery near to it. It has a large parish church. The population amounted in 1801 to 1205, in 1811 to 1249, in 1831 to 1611, and 1881 to 1926.